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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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How on earth Pritzker can make this claim is beyond me. The Sangamon County court said expressly that the IDPH rule that that includes the mandate is void, which it is unless reversed on appeal. Pritzker’s emergency orders relied on that void IDPH rule.
“We’re now trying to deal with a, you know, an errant decision by a judge in one county, one particular judge, you know, it’s throwing everybody into a state of confusion,” Pritzker said.
Did not former president Trump call into question the integrity of Judges and the legal system when rulings did not go his way?
Trump said many extremely irresponsible things, but I never recall him denying that the law is what the courts have plainly ruled. In this case, the law is what the Sangamon County court said it is, unless and until that decision is reversed. It’s astonishingly dishonest and irresponsible of Pritzker to say what he did, and will only add to the confusion of what is going on, which Prtizker had the balls to blame on the court.
Sorry JB, no it’s not! And the more you insist it is, the less people will be listening to you in the future; and when the all Republican appellate court rips you a new one tomorrow, you will be weak, powerless and ineffectual, but still very fat.
The King is throwing a tantrum!
He’s like a really fat Trudeau.