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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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we need jury trials again!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Imagine if there was a lawsuit about the new representation maps and this Judge was the Judge assigned the case.
Illinois…there is no hope.
Be absolutely sure you spend two minutes watching this European Parliament member on this topic: https://t.co/WNJGUDukeC?amp=1
Political. Hacks.
Corrupted judges in Illinois.
If the vax “worked” then there be some cause for enforcement. But it doesn’t work, rapidly diminishes in effectiveness, and leaves many of you with major long-term health impacts.
At 50-50 covid rates now, that argument that justifies the mandate to slow the spread goes out the window.
Personal political opinion, not law. Corruption runs deep.
Of Course! Did anyone realistically expect something else. According to the judge this is a deadly virus but what are his views on the 42K abortions yearly and Illinois becoming a destination for abortions. There were approx 28K Covid deaths as a comparison. What about all the murders/crime in Chicago with little chance of prosecution?
An Obama apointee…who would have thought?
I’m sure Trump appointees like Kavanaugh and Barrett would have given you the decision that you desired. Oh wait, they just declined to intervene in the mandate for Maine health care workers. Those darn democrat appointed judges…It’s all their fault.
So letting lower courts run their process is akin to creating law from the bench.
Got it.
That government check come at the beginning or end of month?
So if a decision doesn’t go your way it’s because it was political.
Got it.
Not at all.
NoHope suggested the judge wasn’t ruling based on law and history shows the left loves legislating from the bench. When a judge “methodically distmantled arguments made in the lawsuit” rather than the defense, it suggests an activist judge.
That is not the same as Trump appointed judges not intervening in the judicial process, which is what constitutionalists would generally advocate.
But seriously, when does that government check arrive?
If that’s the case then you have nothing to worry about. When SCOTUS eventually takes up the case the 6-3 conservative court will surely see things based on the facts and make the right decision. Of course, all those Maine health care workers will be unemployed until the court reviews but at least they will have allowed the lower courts to “run their process”.
What excuse will you and Nohope come up with if the courts allow the mandate to stand? Silly question, it’s still all those democrat appointed judges fault.
There will be no excuses. Many of us don’t need judges or courts to tell us something we already know, which is that free people are not subject to mandates concerning their personal well being. You either value freedom or you don’t. Many don’t. Many value safety over liberty. And as we’ve seen over the past several decades and particularly since 9-11, Ben Franklin was right. People willing to give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Never have we seen so many in the US fight so hard to build their own cages. I’d… Read more »