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Illinois state Sen. Andrew Chesney is voicing sharp criticism of the city of Evanston’s reparations program, calling it “outrageous” and “offensive to everyone.” Chesney’s remarks come on the heels of a new federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch to shut down the race-based initiative, which gives $25,000 in taxpayer money exclusively to Black residents.
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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If Northwestern University wasn’t there paying real estate taxes and GIVING EVANSTON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS the town would be a ghetto.
Just go ahead and take the houses from the limo libs and hand them over to the underserved outright. Watch the “ Hate Has No Home Here “ and “ We Stand With Ukraine “ yard signs come down rapidly. Watch progressive/ Dem/ socialists weep.
Reparations. Both of my grandparents came over from Ireland in the 1900’s. They didn’t own slaves. Why do I have to pay Reparations.