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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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Let there be a montage of Illinois citizens to show how Illinois legislates for the criminal making life dangerous and unfair for law abiding, tax paying citizens and their children! How Illinois residents are suppressed under a the heavy hand of Illinois dictatorship. Legislators in Illinois do not rule for the good of its people nor are they our voice, they do just the opposite of the will of the people!
If IL officials violate federal law, IL could be the blueprint for how to end up in jail.
There goes more federal funding.
Illinois Dems are living in lala land!
President Trump was elected by a clear majority in the electoral college as well as the popular vote. Of the 103 Illinois counties, Harris won 14, Trump took 89.Is Gov Pritzker attempting to take away my voting rights?
Yes and an electoral college should be instituted in every state!
IL doesn’t represent all IL US citizens. IL should not be used as a blueprint. IL Dems only represent illegals, criminals, leftist people and other identity groups. And they are anti Semitic.
IL Dems, so proudly beating their collective chests in a juvenile fight against a bad president, complete with a middle school mentality of name calling. Hey Dems, how about fighting… gerrymandering, crime from the repeat offenders you love to release, illegals siphoning off tax revenue intended to benefit taxpayers, the subpar state of education in IL, the lack of employment in IL, the flight of many residents to other states and the systemic corruption in IL government? No, just keep picking fights with “ bad orange man “ while your state slides further down the toilet bowl and those that… Read more »
Easier to fight windmills than actual enemies.