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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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The only sensible bill in the bunch is the SPLITTING PREGNANCY COSTS bill that requires deadbeat dads to pay half the mother’s cost of pregnancy. But of course the bill becomes an abomination because Rep. Croke says “pregnant people” instead of pregnant women, because she is a stupid person, and of course, Abortion is included. So now fathers are forced to pay 1/2 the cost of abortion, often, an abortion they don’t want the woman to have.
What AN AMAZING STATE WE LIVE HERE!
Kelly “Moloch Priestess” Kelly, who wants wants to give lawyers more reasons to sue, looks like this: Short hair, angry, middle aged and wants to turn IL into a progressive utopia
And Katie Stuart, the pervert who want your school aged daughters to share the same bathroom as grown men, looks like this. Why do all these angry middle aged harpies look like this? Why do they all look the same?
Stava-Murray, the short haired middle aged harpie, screaming at Republican, telling them that ‘local control’ is a dog-whistle for racism. Why do they always look like this?