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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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This absolute gutting of the Right to Conscience Law was so necessary, so vital, that the totalitarians in Springfield delayed its effective date to next Summer. If this was so necessary, these cowards would have made it effective immediately. That would, of course, bring the inevitable blowback. Tyrants disdain blowback, thus this gutting of this law. This wanton act of legal destruction effectively makes the law worthless at the whim of any wannabe tyrant with only the slightest justification for making it so. At this point, the Coof is passe and the Covidofascists know it. The numbers don’t justify any… Read more »
Who is abusing the law?
Anyone who disagrees with Prickster is abusing the law.
A couple of Plaintiff throughout the state won temporary stays on employer vaccine mandates because of this law. So they changed the law and put out propaganda that asserting your conscience was an “abuse of the law”. Disagree agree with Prickster, and you are abusing the law.
This state is the worst.