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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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Predictably, Ramirez name calls those that want election reform in the most racist terms allowable. There are a few names a lot of people have for her that would be punishable as a “ hate crime “, but it’s OK if she does it. She should join the cast of the View.
Anyone who votes against this bill is a beneficiary of voter fraud and election interference.
Sit your butt down and shut the heck up anchor-baby Delia before you find yourself deported. Calling half the country bigots because they want only citizens to vote.