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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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Pack the U-Haul and leave Illinois.
Or hush.
Nobody is forcing you to remain in Illinois and accept this abuse.
This is getting really old, not everyone can just ‘pack up and leave’ like you continue to insist upon.
No worries, Pritzker promised he wouldn’t sign legislation that allows the state to force miles of wind turbines and acres of solar panels on rural counties that don’t want them.
Of course, we saw what Pritzker’s promises regarding gerrymandered redistricting were worth….
Once again, All of these decisions in Springfield are wrong and unconstitutional. Our IL. law makers are forcing everything through the courts
GREEN GRIFTER ALERT: Pritzker To Sign Democrat Bill To Force Downstate To Accept Green Energy Boondoggles
What’s next? this is the second command communist legislators and the governor have said towns have no decision in the matter. 5G towers, now windmills. Oops, here’s another, a pending bill so school districts cannot opt out of the State demanded pornographic, and deviant sex ed classes. The state of Illinois has truly become a Communist State! The more you push the bullies(the legislators and governor) the harder they hit back.
Never stop resisting!
A redesign of the Illinois flag is needed, one that incorporates the Com munist hammer and sickle.
Destroy business opportunities is what Illinois does best.