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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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DeSantis Leaves Room Of Reporters SPEECHLESS: “Florida Is Where Woke Goes to Die”
Illinois top exports
— dead babies
— unemployable chronic pot smokers
— career criminals
— race hustling frauds
— far left Marxist Morons
— miseducated sub-literate graduates
Giddy, pretty soon you’ll be able to add taxpaying Illinoisians to your list
JB-n-Little Laurie couldn’t keep the international headquarters of Cat, Boeing and Citadel in Chicago, but were able to snag a Google facility, which remains headquartered in California.
Or, to put it more accurately – Google adds Illinois to Google’s portfolio of compliantly progressive-n-woke governmental resources, while Cat, Boeing and Citadel tell Illinois to take a hike.
IL needs to eliminate the state income tax and cut sales tax to 7% like it is here in Florida.
But they are moving to States that do not offer free abortions perplexing Pritzker and the Democrat’s heads
Ideological Democrats are so confused. Why are corporations so concerned about money when there are so many more important issues, like abortion and climate change and Saving our Democracy ™ to focus their attention on?
Perfectly said
Because it’s a cult.