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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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Early education needs to stop being paid for by taxpayers. Mom should be home with these young children. It has always been that way until Liberals reasoned they could start to groom them early, before they hit kindergarten!
And by the way: NO FREE FOOD AT ANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Parents are responsible for feeding their children!
Look at our plump Gov, Commodious Maximus, all due to probably getting free food!
And cue the two headed, blue IL monster known as El Stupidos in Spanish.
Indiana, you try to blanket the site every day with knee-jerk comments like that, that we delete. Stop wasting your time. We let through only those that have at least a little substance.
Both need to be voted out