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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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Dirtbag Durbin wants children to be forced to listen and see garbage LBGTQ+ nonsense. Democrats are beyond the pale with using public schools for mandated child abuse. The SCOTUS said emphatically ‘NO’ to mandated abuse. That anyone would argue against this, particularly taxpayer funded ‘educators’ and administrators, is beyond sicko.
IL needs to support parental rights over special interest groups and CTU.