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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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I’m voting by mail and in person.
Vote in person.
I’m concerned with Leftists in Chicago trying to influence the WI & MI election with their fraud.
Not worried about VBM for Prez election because IL is solid blue. However, worried the vote by mail ballots will pull out a Dem victory for the Progressive Income Tax Amendment.
Certainly a valid concern…
We need to overwhelmingly defeat this tax hike amendment…
Otherwise they may “find” some boxes of “misplaced” ballots to put them over the top…
If that happens all the sane people need to just move out of Illinois. Let the government employees and politicians pay for their own pensions. I’m already working on getting out regardless…
I’m voting by mail. It’s safer.
This means nothing. Many I know off are going to vote in person on November 3rd 2020, come hell or high water. The media again spinning it as though this means something.
Of course it hit a new high. We are in the middle of a pandemic that has liberals afraid of their own shadow.
So, IL will vote for team D and stay Blue on the map, color me shocked.
More importantly, IL will lose 1 seat via the 2020 census, so the influence of the IL uniparty is lessened on the national stage.
Progress.
Never received my ballot, has been floating around since 9/24. No response from board of elections or post office.
Your dog just voted for the tax increase
Hm! Hm!