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.
I guess there’s no need to have tougher penalties for people who murder adults in Illinois. Uh-huh.
One would think that the title of the article was referring to the awful crime of abortion, but no. I think it is quite reasonable to posit that when the citizenry has such low regard for the baby in the womb, bad results will follow when babies grow and are out in the world. All these crackpots do is pass laws thinking they are accomplishing some thing. They are not.