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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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This is proof that if we weren’t such a gerrymandered state the state just might be Red .
With everything going on in this state I would wager at minimum a Swing state maybe as early as the next election cycle. Most of Illinois is red except for Chicago/Cook County due to population. Just need a few hundred thousand R votes from Chicago so it’s possible.
Correct, Chicago/Cook do this to the state every election cycle, maybe now they have had enough of the Democrats.
Will county is true blue too . If they have a D behind them they vote for it Chicago is the puppet master will county is one of its puppets very sad
Couldn’t have said it better, just a little something about Will county White Oak Library District again for the 4th time they are asking for a tax levy increase on the April 1st ballot. Every time it’s been voted down what does that tell you.
Illinois would not be red but for gerrymandering. It would be less blue, but it would not be red. Illinois without gerrymandering would have 7 or 8 of the 17 congressional house seats, and the house would have solid, but nowhere near super majorities, in Springfield, and races would be more competitive, and during a tea party wave year, the Springfield majority could be reduced to only a handful of seats. Trump brought out more Republican voters in Illinois than any other Republican president in Illinois history in 2024, and he still lost by over 500,000 votes with only 43%… Read more »
Look at the configuration of Districts 13, 16, & 17. True jigsaw puzzles that make no sense.
Exactly