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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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Reading her interview, all I saw was obfuscation and delusion. This woman is a clear menace.
Foxx is clueless just like the voters in Cook/County/Chicago
Kim Foxx points to the low clearance rate for violent crimes, and says that she cannot prosecute until the offenders are arrested. That is true. But what she doesn’t mention is that very few violent offenders have never been arrested before. The police actually have arrested these people, usually several times. The criminal justice system finds ways to keep putting them back in the community, where they terrorize other residents. We all know that law-abiding residents do not fear the police. They fear the retribution of gangbangers. That is why they don’t cooperate with the police. Go ahead Kim, keep… Read more »
She needs to go! Worst ever! Cook county you voted this clown in you get what what you voted for! Good luck