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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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Kim Foxx wants the crime-victims arrested, you know, for “posing a threat” to their assailant, by displaying personal possessions that said assailant covets and therefor appropriates, causing them to commit a crime against their better judgment and otherwise outstanding citizen profile.
Oops, but Ms. Foxx, what about all the repeat offenders, who perform same crime, over and over again, despite their ankle bracelets and judge’s empowerment lectures? How do we explain-away those repeat offenders???
But how can they be repeat offenders if the charges keep getting dismissed? They’ll always be first time offenders!
Chicago has 2 fatalities a day from gun violence. Last week they had 4 fatalities per day from COVID. Within the next 2-4 weeks the lines will cross and there will be more deaths per day from gun violence than Covid. I think we need a lock down to prevent gun violence. Does not matter if it does not work. It would be virtue signaling. So, they want to limit or deny gun ownership by limiting inventory or bullets or gun parts and it is illegal to have gun without a permit. But they do not want to enforce the… Read more »
Mask the guns…!!!
I love it when the woke white liberal gets mugged or car jacked!!! LOL
And how afterwards they “accidentally” call the police, violating their defund/abolish principles.
She has to be joking!!!
Foxx needs to go! Liar and scum bag.
I mean, maybe, Kimm Foxx has become so progressive that she’s come full circle to a red pill. She says it doesn’t make sense to arrest non-violent gun possession offenders especially when the ‘data’ (if you trust the data) shows that they’re not carrying guns to commit criminal acts. She’s basically saying that IL doesn’t need FOID cards anymore and not even CCL licenses. She’s permitting people in dangerous neighborhoods to protect themselves concealed carry without permission whatsoever. How many states even allow gun owners to do that? I like it. The only problem I have though is that the… Read more »
Fox is right, they are arresting the wrong people. She, Mayor Lightweight and all of their cronies are the ones that need to be locked up and put away if we are to improve the situation.
Once again, kimmie’s priorities are in virtue signaling to her woke white lib base than fighting skyrocketing crime in black community.
In a sense K. Foxx is voiding concealed carry laws.
How many children will be murdered while these people search for the “root causes” of violence? News flash Kim – the root cause of violence is the evil people who perpetrate it.
She and Lightfoot tell the police all day long to “get the guns off the streets”, so the police do just that… Then these women complain that its not the right guns? Ok maybe you two should go out and get some guns, show the cops how its done!
Ok so who should they be arresting Kimmy poo, white people.