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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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Pure stupidity. Chicago is built on wetlands that abutted Lake Michigan. Mother nature is just taking back what we took from mother nature.
Wrong article!
Not sure what you mean.
I meant to post this comment on the Chicago Declares Climate Emergency – WTTW article, not this one. That’s why the comment makes no sense posted after an article about marijuana.
Then again, maybe I’ve been partaking of a little too much ‘medicine’ myself these days since jan 1….
The taxes are out of control. But still, people are still lining up like crazy to buy it.
Time to open a pot dispensary just west of County Line Road. It’s gonna be da bomb.
People cross the county line to save pennies per gallon on gas. This will be no different.
Your friendly neighborhood dealer has no taxes on his plentiful supply
Idiots just total idiots Toni taxwinkel at it again, I will laugh my you know what off when all the pot shops close up because of no businesses. It willl be like all the empty store fronts in Illinois, total asses
If you like your old dealer you can keep him.
What if you have pre-existing conditions?