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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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Percent Pritzger and Cook/County/Chicago democrats care about Brown County Illinois……….0%
Even the discussion around the ‘ending cash bail’ is not entirely accurate. Most people agree that holding petty criminals and homeless people in jail because they can’t come up with $500 is a waste of resources. But the bill goes beyond just petty criminals and applies this logic to habitual and recidivist criminals. The carjacker’s pretrial conditions are the same as the panhandlers. That’s insanity.