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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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At some point there must be a definitive ruling on firearms in this country or else the madness of never ending new firearm laws will jam up courts across the land forever. In one state its okay another will send you to prison. One city okay, across the street in another city or town a person becomes a felon. Its just madness. Bad people will do bad things and will do bad things however they can or use whatever. There are multiple gun laws even in more gun friendly states but the key is enforcement of those laws and applying… Read more »
>>never ending new firearm laws will jam up courts across the land forever.<<
That’s the whole point…
The pipeline of $ to the pols who write these laws, from the law firms that benefit from our tax money by representing the government…
The grift is perpetual…
The legacy of Trump lives on. Thank you DJT for your acumen in appointing astute federal judges that follow the constitution.
You can count on Kwame to virtue signal on behalf of JB Pritzker and to continue pointlessly wasting IL taxpayers money.