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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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So, when are they gonna actually go after criminals that USE said guns, instead of blindly banning those for everyone?! Hell, I’ve been carrying various handguns from smaller 380 to high caliber revolvers for over a decade. Why am I as a law abiding citizen gotta be penalized after doing nothing to break said laws. As debstor said: “These weapons are available, and entirely legal, in every state surrounding IL. Some states surrounding IL have constitutional carry of these weapons. Few if any will register their gun. It will be a complete failure. 2/3rd of IL counties will refuse to… Read more »
With the Safe-T Criminal justice Act unleashing crime to the State of Illinois in January the legislators have to have a gun ban on legal guns to level the field for the Criminals.
Criminals own nothing so there is no monetary value to holding them in jail or prosecuting them.
As always, lets see the privileged, tax payer funded lawmakers
be defunded of their body security.
You will notice by going to ilga.gov and pulling up this bill HB5855, there are no witness slips filed. That is a lie! Where are the witness slips going, in the garbage can, no doubt.
Where is there an effort by Illinois law makers to get the illegal guns out of the hands of the criminal? Too hard to address the REAL problem. The criminal is their friend.
There are plenty, its just hard to find (like anything else on any other IL gov run website)
I know there’s been a call to action from both sides to file witness slips: 11,000 for to 18,000 against. But witness slips do nothing to change legislators’ minds. The last line of defense we have is a trump appointed conservative federal judge in the 7th circuit who will stop the law in its tracks while it is litigated, and it eventually gets overturned by supreme court years from now. That’s the only chance you have. Start donating money for legal fees to all of your local gun shops and rifle associations.
Another comment. I have bought firearms in Illinois, have a FOID card, passed a state and federal background check. Paid state taxes on my firearm purchases and all firearms were legal to own. I have firearms that I carried on duty as a police officer and a deputy sheriff. I bought them, they are mine. They have magazines that hold 17 rounds. They were my tools as a law enforcement officer. Soon I will be a violent felon, a criminal, a threat to society. Thank you democrats, you are the criminals, you are the problem.
They hate you. That’s why they are punishing you. Are you paying attention yet?
I’ve been paying attention since 1968 when democrat representatives at the democratic national convention threw bricks at me and called me a pig. Haven’t voted for a democrat in my entire adult life.
Proud to say I never voted for a democrat either!
My Parents were right!
Just so we are clear: This tyrant is trying to pass a law that turns nearly every gun owner in the State into felons before January 10th. When told that he is turning millions of IL residents into criminals he says ““…..but of course I recognize, and the working group recognizes, all of these devices and these weapons, they exist in Illinois today….So it is really thinking about it in a prospective way instead of penalizing those who purchased them legally in Illinois. But the law AS WRITTEN penalizes otherwise law abiding residents for owning magazines with more than 10… Read more »
Yep, I own a Browning Hi Power 9mm handgun that I bought in 1968. Since that time it has never committed a crime, never robbed anyone, shot anyone, car jacked anyone or has done a drive by shooting. It holds 15 rounds. I take it out for a visit to the range every now and then, clean and then return it to it’s safe spot. Pass that law and make me a criminal makes sense to me. Pursue the criminals, charge them and send them to prison for decades don’t make an example out people, like me who have never… Read more »
Democrats always go after the weapon. Republicans go after the guy pulling the trigger.
Gun owners don’t vote for Democrats. That’s why they are punishing us.
In Red states, abortion advocates (Moloch worshipers) don’t vote for Republicans, so the R legislatures punish the Democrat voters.
There’s a political cold war going on between Red States and Blue States. It’s not going to end well for anyone, unfortunately, and hopefully we can all find a peaceful solution.
democrats ie., communists plan is gun control one state at a time. An unsuspecting process, but it gets communists to their goal, gun confiscation.