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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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Need one in the House I suppose too.
Another RINO just like RINO Lausch who reports to Lori.
There is so much corruption in Illinois politics and elections. Can’t even trace if your vote was accpted.
Illinois republicans need to get a backbone.
Illinois republicans don’t need a backbone. The voters have repeatedly rejected their message. Republicans understand that it’s time to forget about Illinois. Maybe you should too.
Never give up, fight.
Giving up on politics is the Communists Utopia
Let Illinois have its utopia. Move to Texas
Be my guest Lana. If you’re fine with going to bed angry and waking up depressed for the next 10 plus years. Also, keep in mind the people you will be fighting are your neighbors. They are the idiots voting for fiscal suicide. In my opinion, if someone is determined to kill themselves there isn’t much anyone can do to stop them. That’s why I finally left a state where I lived for 60 years. I’m not letting my family get caught up in a suicide pact with the liberals.
Yeah, a tax raiser.
I highly doubt I will vote again after this election. The right to abstain is more powerful than a vote they can throw away or cancel out with fake votes.
I keep thinking the same. However, I think we should really examine separating Federal elections from state/local elections.
It is hard to think we made an impact on the national stage. But we definitely did make a difference in IL. Temporary as it may be.