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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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THe residents of Chicago have had the chance to vote out politicians who are not looking out for the students best interests. Voters did not exercise their rights then, so what makes this any different?
The voters did exercise their rights and they chose based on their best interest. You just don’t like the results.
The reality is that in many places in Chicago, and the county, and even throughout the state, there’s only the illusion of choice. There’s a reason why Chicago’s voting pattern map looks like this and it’s not necessarily all the will of the voters, when the party in charge for 100 years controls who goes on the ballot…
Thanks for putting up a map that clearly shows that the voters chose Biden and not Trump. This is what the voters wanted. Just because they overwhelmingly chose him doesn’t negate the choice.
That map is a proxy for the exactly one democrat candidate they are allowed to vote for in the primary. Sometimes, like in the state’s attorney’s race, they get two. But most offices have one only person running for them as pre-determined by the Democrat. But according to your logic, it was the will of the voters to vote for Democrats, who would then decide who they get to vote for by only allowing one Democrat to appear on the primary ballot! There’s a reason why IL wants to turn to ranked choice voting – because in low turnout (and… Read more »
Those people can vote differently. They have a choice. Their vote is not preordained for democrats. If no one else runs then that candidate must be so popular with the voters that not a single person believes they can beat them. Complaining it’s not fair that so many people vote for democrats is hardly an argument that they don’t have a choice. They are choosing and doing so decisively.