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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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The only injustice there is, is what the fraud in the white house is doing to America as well as Democrat, Marxist Governors.
I’m sure the land the capitol and governor’s mansion sits on must have belonged to some Indian tribe at some time.
Let’s start there.
So you tell me that Shabbona and the surrounding communities voted Trump +38 last election? Oh, I’m so sorry deplorable, I’m going to return your local state park to an Indian tribe under a 194 year old treaty, and they’re going to turn it into a casino, to milk you blue eyed devils for all of your money. And we’ll flood your communities with illegals and drugs while we’re at it too, for good measure.
So once the Potawatomi take ownership of the land, will they be paying real estate tax?
That is what IL Democrats do best — performative virtue signaling that addresses none of the real problems facing Illinois — most of those being self-inflicted by the same IL Democrats