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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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2,637 witness slips were filed against this bill and only 352 were filed in favor of it. All gender restrooms are clearly not popular with the majority of Illinoisans. https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/Witnessslip.asp?LegDocId=179933&DocNum=1286&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=143396&GAID=17&SessionID=112&GA=103&SpecSess=&Session=&WSType=OPP More attention needs to be focused on State Representative Katie Stuart of Edwardsville. She is the most liberal and most woke Democrat in the Illinois State House outside of metro Chicago. Stuart represents the 112th District in the St. Louis Metro East that covers portions of Madison and St. Clair Counties. Other than the fact that this district includes Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, there is no reason for it to… Read more »
It must be nice to come up with these bills. When they are passed and put into place then walk away. We the people then have to deal with the repercussions. So parents never let your children go to the restroom alone EVER. Illinois , doing the same things, expecting different results
Why do these communist morons always look like this: