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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Putzger is hoping for another pandemic so he can lock everyone in while he spends time in Florida with his family
HOW MUCH WILL THAT COST ILLINOIS TAXPAYERS?
By ‘joins’, this means that JB the Hutt is now paying confiscated taxpayer funds to this discredited organization. Despite possessing unimaginable offshored trust fund wealth, The Hutt buys his friends with taxpayer dollars. Throwing Other People’s Money around indiscriminately is The Hutt’s MO. Everyone loves the one picking up the tab, regardless of where he got the money, so The Hutt basks in the faux adulation that paid sycophants shine upon him. This is a taste of what a Hutt presidency would look like. All the Federal waste and grifting would be restored with the sheen of a Santa Claus… Read more »