The American College of Pediatricians held a news conference where Dr. Andre Van Mol said, “Physicians take an oath to do no harm and gender-affirming health care is documented to lead to harm.” Meanwhile, an Illinois state agency is launching a statewide initiative it says “supports and expands gender-affirming care.” Audio: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon says Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades – Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 3, 2026
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
God bless these doctors opposing this madness!
Enabling people’s psychological disorders isn’t good for them, or society.
Doing it to youngsters is child abuse!
They’re all sick freaks, on the wrong side of history. England, most of Europe, and now Peru, are prohibiting this nonsense, yet our sick obese pervert governor wants to expand it.
Couldn’t say it any better. Voters should make no mistake, mutilating children in this manner is a Pritzker initiative.
Kinna like abortion is to obiden….very sick!