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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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Any bit of hope for property owners to reduce the unjustified money grab by greedy Communists is destroyed under Communism.
Illinois is going full bore communism.
This opinion piece is embarrassing – follow the rules and laws in Illinois and win your appeal, and if your not a connected Democrat too bad according to the Sun-Times. That is pitiful, just pitiful. No problem with Pritzker’s scam though.