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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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Crime and an “equitable recovery” (whatever that means) are her two top priorities. Confiscatory property taxes, a pathetic public school system, dirty and unsafe public transportation, pensions hanging over the edge of a cliff, a collapsed Michigan Avenue retail district, big businesses leaving downtown, etc., etc. don’t rank. That is precisely why Chicago is in a death spiral.
Chicago doesn’t need a Mayor — it needs a Zoo Keeper