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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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Perhaps they should see what happened to DeBlasio’s site when he asked people to do this to their neighbors.
More Stalinist’s show their true colors…
Schutzstaffel, the German “protection squadron” or commonly called the SS will soon be visiting your neighborhood. Everybody thought Hitler was a bad guy yet it seems the current bunch of politicians are following in his footsteps.
Yes, I bet Democrats find a lot of good information in Mein Kampf in how to control their enemies.
Screw the reds on the Lake County Board.
I will be very surprised if people from across the country do not use the site to voice the complete revulsion of the boards actions…
That would be such a pity, no?
This trend in some parts of the country is pure .gov influenced tyranny against a free people.
Name and Shame please
Brown shirts may be picked up at the courthouse.
Remember, one of the greatest tricks the left ever pulled was convincing the world that fascism was a right wing invention.
I don,t understand,you must be nuts to pay the sky high property taxs to be treated like this!We left to great peace of mind in 2018.