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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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The *red flag* laws apply to *legal* gun owners, whom the state already know possess guns because of the FOID law…
The vast majority of shootings are done by people illegally possessing guns, those without the *mandatory* FOID card…
So, how can they use the *red flag* law, when they don’t know they possess the guns…?
Just another virtue signaling law by progressives, to show that they are*doing something*…
And of course to target legal gun owners they wish to silence…
Do red flag laws apply to rappers who threaten to shoot up their rivals on Facebook? Stopping these kinds of shootings would do more to reduce ‘gun violence’ than any assault weapons ban.
Remember to save those wrappers!