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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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They violated the laws, they need to be charged. Maybe we should give them all free pot too along with all the other freebies like housing, FOOD stamps, medical care, water bills, winter coats, backpacks, school supplies, turkeys, etc.
Query what the differences in prices are between products on the black market and those sold at the regulated dispensaries? People with disposable income, it strikes me, would pay a premium to purchase at the regulated market. Weed presents an interesting problem because if tax burdens on its sale are high, the black market will continue unabated. California is experiencing this problem.
Wait when all the stimulus money runs out and the extra 300 weekly unemployment checks and regular unemployment runs out and people have to really get off there asses and get a real job. The free stuff army will be crying the blues when the free stuff runs out it cannot go on forever.
To stop this arrest more illegal marijuana users. They won’t be happy until they get it for free.
Yup and they claim they are discriminated against, they receive more free stuff than any other race in the country, yes poc