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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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IL does nothing for US citizen taxpayers. They instead protect illegals and criminals.
Spot on Deb. Read that article about the illegal and the alleged overdose victim.
It looks like “noncitizen migrant” is the new euphemism for “illegal alien.” The suspect is in the country illegally, used narcotics, is charged with concealing a death, abusing a corpse and obstructing justice, and may be guilty of worse. But oh no, we can’t call him an illegal alien!
And “The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice” says our drug laws are to blame for Ms. Bos’ death!?
Billionaire Pritzker lives in a mansion with state provided security, and I would assume some level of private security. Is driven around in state vehicles and security. Flys private. Isolated from the real world his entire life. Johnson comes from a far different background and should know far better than JB how crime decimates large swaths of the city. But he too has elaborate security and a driver. Yet both of these guys somehow come to the same conclusion, that criminals need coddling because of social disadvantages that have caused them to commit crimes. A complex issue that may never… Read more »
Yet both of these guys somehow come to the same conclusion, that criminals need coddling because of social disadvantages that have caused them to commit crimes. The Billionaire class and politicians caused these social disadvantages.
You’ll look long and hard before you find a Dem that would dare point out the destructiveness of the Safe T Act. Pritzger, Kwame, Homie and Tim Evans don’t like it when that happens. You immediately become a carnival barker racist that wants to keep poc in jail unlawfully when you speak up.
Illinois democrats will bend over backwards to protect the criminal elements in our society and will totally disregard the trauma that innocent crime victims experience. Criminals rights will be protected by whatever it takes, victims have no rights and are ignored. Thank you democrats L
Leave it to IL Democrats to decriminalize cutting the head off a corpse and hiding the body in a bleach filling storage container. Anyone who voted for the SAFE-T Act has blood on their hands.