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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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If guns were edible he would protect them at all costs
Yeah, yeah…this makes sense. Sure it does. Drive the gun manufacturers and dealers out of IL, all part of his plan to outlaw guns entirely…because that will stop gun violence and crime. Sure…absolutely…that makes sense I
Pugsley knows as much about the First Amendment as he does about portion control
The fools have already driven Lewis Machine and Tool out of the state. Are Armalite, Springfield Armory. Rock River Arms and Rock Island Arms going to be next manufacturers going? How many of their arms been used in crime Fatman? It appears to me these entities drew their skilled workers from Rock Island Arsenal and it should be no problem for them to relocate to Iowa. Hugh loss of taxes for the Fat Pig.
Jabba could care less about the people of Illinois, especially the “deplorables”outside of the Chicago metro area. This is just fodder for Fatboy’s National ambition and a pass into the far left playbook. And lets not forget the handout to the ambulance chasing Trial lawyers.