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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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Here’s an (undated) pic of Putzker, jacketless and in profile, if you can “stomach” it:
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/23/pritzker-unable-to-buy-presidential-love-one-percenter-a-two-percenter/
Don’t forget he was the self appointed Health Czar during Covid. All he mentioned was metrics and science.
JB needs to use his own money for this, not taxpayer funds. He can fund his own election campaign.
Hopefully one look at the path he charts for Illinois will be enough for even democrats to see as wrong nationally.