-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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 2A is a right, not a privilege. Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. You can legislate insurance to drive a car because it is a privilege. You cannot legislate insurance to own a gun because it is a right. Morgan is a gun grabber to the nth degree. Morgan can go pound sand.
Will politicians be required to take out insurance against any and all lies that they may tell? I mean if we have to have insurance to enjoy our constitutional rights, the politicians should have to be covered when they abuse the First amendment!
Pretty slick how Morgan tries to conflate another penalty on law abiding gun owners with flood and cyberattack insurance. These guys never quit, do they?
Rep. Bob Morgan hates you, deplorable, and finds you and your beliefs repulsive. He’d lock you up in a camp if he could.