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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 FOID has been around for decades…
Has it had ‘any’ appreciable effect on reducing a criminals efforts to obtain a gun…?
It’s pretty obvious – NO…
The IL FOID has ‘only’ negatively effected ‘law abiding citizens’ efforts to protect themselves…
Ideally this needs to be addressed at the federal level, with constitutional carry in all 50 states…
I’ve always said when you apply for a FOID card in Illinois your registering yourself not a weapon.
Most likely 99% of the time if a person is arrested on another gun crime charge and the “no FOID” is added as a charge it’s dropped in court. It’s a toothless, nonsense law that has never prevented a crime since inception. Feel good law passed by lawmakers that has had zero impact on anything.
As with the trigger switch addendum. Maybe more no gun zone signs will solve this problem…