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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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Let’s see. IL, among the highest property taxes, highest sales and gasoline taxes, tops in corruption and crime, highest teacher salaries, and now, lowest education outcomes. As some other writer said, if it’s a positive category, IL is always near the bottom, if it’s a negative category, like corruption, IL is always at or near the top
Check out the book ” facing reality ” , this may answer the question.
I know it’s hard and difficult, but if you can’t come up with what private school costs you have to move to get your kids a basic education before it’s to late. Pritzker, the Teachers Union, and the Democrats just do not care about the failed education system they have created.
Intelligent, informative reporting.
But here’s the thing. The corrupt politicians and government apparatchiks of this state, who are thoroughly in bed with unions, do not care about outcomes.
I’m telling you. They do not care.
Communists and the corruptible only care about control. That is all.
You’re trying to raise awareness. To get the populace to bring about change.
That will only happen in the presence of free and fair, non-corrupted elections. This state does not have that.
It all starts with election integrity. Without that, IL (and our nation) has no future worth saving.