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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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There is no way in h*** they will give the All Star game to a stadium owned by Tom Ricketts.
JB, What a moron!
JB should promise free valet parking to everyone attending the game if MLB relocates the game here. Of course the valets will be carjackers, but let’s not worry about the details.
I think MLB would be disappointed in the ticket revenue from capacity limits in IL. Not to mention the weather. On second thought – the MLB and Pritzker deserve each other.
MLB has a mostly older white male fan base which they are having great difficulties expanding into younger millennials or gen Z’s. They’ve tried hard, with the MLB app, and shortening the games, with mixed success. Which this latest move is totally boneheaded but I don’t know if they had a choice. The unverified rumor is that it was the woke corporate sponsors who demanded this action not the players themselves who are mostly opposed. They were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could alienate the sponsors but keeps the fans and players happy; or they could… Read more »
Boycott mlb at all cost
a boycott of all big business is essential to keeping our freedom.
Come to see the AllStar game, get mugged, get car jacked, get assaulted, get killed. Great advertising moment.