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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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Is IL would use gas tax money to repair roads and bridges like their supposed to, our roads and bridges would be the best in the country. Pritzker needs stop stealing that money to give to left groups and policies, and stop funding illegals.
They won’t be happy till we’re number one in gas tax as well. And the tax just keeps getting bigger, automatically thanks to those idiots in Springfield.
#3 in highest gas taxes and not even close to #3 in the quality of the roads. Poor to fair roads and bridges at best.