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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 measure would not affect the “midget” class of race cars or youth hockey programs which use the designation for players age 15-18.”
Why not? If it is wrong-think at this high school, isn’t it wrong-think everywhere? Or is it like the racial slur the esteemed rep claims, without evidence, has been used against him: “you can’t use that word, but members of the ‘community’ and rap ‘artists’ can and do.”
Consistency and coherence evade those without first, or any, principles.