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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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Another unconstitutional bill that will get struck down almost immediately. It’s almost like these progressives hate the constitution and want to destroy it, and the country, with it. It’s a pattern here, over and over again, of legislators trying to pass laws knowing they are unconstitutional, but just not caring.
I don’t think non-citizens should be allowed to vote but I’m not sure it would be struck down as unconstitutional. Yes the Illinois constitution states that every US citizen over the age of 18 and a resident of the state has the right to vote but it doesn’t say ONLY US citizens have the right to vote. Would the court interpret that ONLY citizens can vote and the constitutional framers clearly wanted to exclude non-citizens? Possibly, but there is also a section that specifically calls out who is excluded from elections. The only people that are excluded are felons currently… Read more »