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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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These illegals and undocumented individuals have more rights and access to health care and free stuff then I do, unbelievable!
It’s getting much more easier for me and my wife to leave this state especially after what Pritzker did yesterday we live in a hell hole of a state and all the politicians are to blame.
In a city full of illegal immigrants and criminals, these are the kind of nonsensical laws a democracy will produce.
WE live in a clown world.
“In a democracy, any bad idea can grow up to become public policy.” (I wish I knew who said that . . . .) The alarming thing in Illinois these days–not to mention in the country at large–is how “fast and furious” the bad ideas are coming at us.