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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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Police should start a ticket writing campaign against Pritzker and his relatives.
Just think of the money something like this could generate! It could completely erase the pension deficits overnight.
P.S. Just a suggestion: Make sure that J. Beluga gets written up for being double parked every time he uses a bathroom. Anyone who is that full of s*** will, among other things, generate a huge amount of revenue.