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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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If the building was on fire and coming down around him, Larry Msal would be jumping on the janitor about sweeping. The guy’s a weasel mush mouth. The Civic Windbag Federation.
The quote “… identify new revenues to pay for that going forward” is code-speak for raising taxes and user fees. Yep, just continue to beat the crap out of the Chicago residents who’ve already been beaten senseless.
Back to the same old scoop-n-toss