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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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JB the Hutt still has some of his authoritarian Coof Executive Orders in place. He just gave marching orders to his Brownshirts to employ violence towards anyone opposing him.
The Hutt always fails to see the authoritarian in the mirror.
If Governor Porkulus did not use pure projection, what would be babble on about?
Authoritarian indeed!
Read the comments in the article. At least 800 or more most are negative about JB.
I need Mark to comment on Pritzker being the authoritarian more than Trump. His long lockdowns and state of emergency, his throwing Republicans off the ballot, and several of his other proclamations. I can’t remember all these instances and don’t want to be inaccurate, but Pritzker has a long series of Nazi impulses.
Yes, long list of Pritzker’s autocratic habits make him horribly hypocritical on this. I do think, however, that Trump supporters should acknowledge that Trump has some of that, too. And Trump responds to criticism from his own base. He must be kept in line on that.
a president exercising his constitutionally protected executive authority does not equal “authoritarian”.