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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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What was uncalled for & illegal was 40+ months of ‘royal decrees’ that violated our civil rights & caused untold millions of dollars in loss to small businesses…
… and set multiple generations behind academically. Pity the children, especially the children being held hostage by the CPS/CTU.
Pritzker aligns himself with illegals and transgenders. What a strategy. Feels like another gigantic L.
What’s uncalled for and illegal is allowing 600, 000+ known criminals ( probably many more unaccounted for ) into the country and then doing nothing about it.
As Dean Wormer once said, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Will someone tell JB the Hutt that he has a better chance of of being Mr. Universe than he does of being President.
We can only hope and pray some other shiny thing gets his attention.
National Emergency for Illinois Taxpayers, get the the f… out!