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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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Will the Illinois GOP fight in court the licenses for illegals? Or will they do nothing.
Seems like that would be a massive waste of time. The state is well within its rights to decide who is eligible for a drivers license.
I have to agree and I assume they will need to meet the same requirements as any other Illinois resident.
Not undocumented immigrants. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS. Please Wirepoints, call them what they are.
Not our story. We don’t change what others have written.
At this point, Pritzger should appropriate the old Big Boy icon ( complete with overalls and drooling over a hoisted cheeseburger) and replace the meal on the upheld plate with a bundle of the taxpayers money.
Now I have a taste for a Big Boy and seasoned fries followed by apple pie a la mode. They had one in Rockford when I first moved to this area from Chicago.
The last one I saw was outside Wentzville, MO on highway 40 in the mid- eighties.
Great move, IL pols. Now, there will be more uninsured motorists on the road, which means more accidents and even higher premiums for us. The car insurance companies will make higher profits, and the insured IL drivers are happy to help make that happen!
Driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. Lovely. What’s next? Business licenses for child sex offenders who want to open up a daycare facility? FOID cards for gangbangers?
I keep hearing democrat creatures screaming that ‘no one is above the law’. Somehow this does not apply to immigration law.
Illinois politicians are simply the dumbest in this country, tied with the imbecile political animals in Sacramento.
The people let this state die due to their voting habits and greed!