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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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By raising the net cost of trading in a car worth more than $10k, this tax change will simply reduce how many people do it. In effect, this will cause more people to keep their cars longer, and (as usual) the static projections for incremental tax revenue will prove idiotically high.
Hey Pritzger (and pals) go sit on a revving chainsaw.
older cars are usually less efficient, so they will make more money on their gas taxes this way… lol