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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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isn’t most of Chicago already powered by clean Nuclear power?
Yes, but the pending Clean Energy Jobs Act would ban it!. It targets 100% renewables which precludes even nuclear. And we’d have to abandon the entire natural gas industry.
How? By returning to the stone age, when Chicago residents are reduced to burning animal dung and trees for fuel.