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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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Primary him. He’s become a tool of the Democrats. He is not thinking clearly. Sure, you can go against some of Trump’s policies and not sign on to his personality, but voting for impeachment based on Jan 6 is just plain dumb. Sasse, Romney, Toomey, Cheyney and the other 9 all need to be primaried.
AK should go out and get a real job, I’ll never vote for him again. I know 10 other folks that feel the same way.
Any pol like this who wants to move up picks his issues carefully, determines how visible he wants to get on those issues, and selects the tone he wants to project. He’s been a good rep for his district sticking to the issues of national defense, fiscal responsibility and other core Republican issues– until about six months ago. Then he started thinking about how to go statewide in Illinois, looked at the left leaning electorate here, and really got focused on the wrong topics and has become increasingly tone deaf on Trump, BLM, and silent on national defense. He better… Read more »
It started a lot before six months ago and even before Trump showed up.
He’s been for amnesty since Juan McCain was still breathing. Also was a war hawk like Manchurian McCain.
Amnesty is toxic, toxic for any R.
Debtsor, commenters, do you think that is true even for amnesty/normalization short of full voting rights? That is, would it be toxic if voting rights were not included?
Kinzinger, like Liz Cheney, seems to have never seen an ‘endless war’ he won’t support.
Kinzinger, please just join CNN or MSNBC and leave – People think you are a grandstanding idiot.
He already has, he’s just not getting paid for it
Guys like this want to go off and start their own mini republican party. The republican party proper is the 78 million who voted for Trump. Yet jamokes like Kinzinger still think those 78 million still belong to their old GOP. He should become a democrat. I will sit at home before I ever vote for the Kinzinger Romney of party, seriously let the democrats win before I’d ever want to see a Romney or Kinzinger think they can take what a strong leader like Trump built almost single handedly.
Kin’s prob is that he’s too arrogant to realize that keeping quiet about Trump, and bending the knee, are two different things. He’s stupid because he voted for impeachment and he actively bad mouths a very popular Republican president.
He wants to run against JB in the future for Gov because he’s a nobody in the house right now. He thinks a moderate anti-trump republican can win the state. He should see exhibit A – Rauner, and ask him how well that worked out for him. Maybe he can visit Rauner in Florida?
When AK was first coming up he knocked on my front door in Mokena campaigning, came in and we talked for a while. He was later redistricted somewhere else. I liked him and was happy to vote for him. but the natural forces that raised Trump are still in motion. The GOP needs to listen to those winds and not artificially try to force some kind of intellectual construct upon the millions of regular Joe’s out there. Thats a losing strategy. How can anyone think that the natural forces of things suddenly end with an election loss, those forces are… Read more »
No one can ever go back home just as Republicans can’t go back home to the party of Reagan or Lincoln. Republicans are still here and we are mostly the same people but we need a leader who responded to the issues that affect us most today. Republicans today have been dealing with a generation of deindustrialization and wealth concentration in the hands of the wealthiest Democrat individuals and corporations. Republicans today are an America First party because Democrats are not. Run with that policy Adam, and you can leave Trump out of it.