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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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Even better would be to stop Illinois practice of hitting drivers with state/county/local gas taxes and sales taxes on top of all that — TAXING THE TAXES
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/high-gas-prices-mean-illinois-sales-tax-adds-200-a-year/
What happened to the concept of no double taxation? And you’re correct, paying sales tax on taxes is absurd.
$”.40 cents a gallon cheaper in Beloit, Wi compared to prices in Illinois. Shopping, no or less tax, alcohol, no additional tax. Shotgun shells for pheasant hunt, no FOID required.
No toll roads…..