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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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How about Pritzger sit his arse down and stay in the state of Illinois and abide by the ruinous rules he imposes of the people and businesses of Illinois, no taking off to your home in Florida or Wisconsin! You stay here and Govern!
Here’s an idea. Pot is legal now so restaurants should sell Marijuana brownies. Tax on brownies can be the same as pot so gov won’t shut them down because it’s now essential . Patrons will get munchies so might as well order a turkey club and more brownies.
Is it surprising–November 3?
To get people to bend to who and what they want in the vote.
The majority of cases are not new –you get tests again and again when you have it and each test is considered a new case.
The hospitals are not over stretched.
The cases tend to be in assisted living–NY gov was Ill gov model.
Is it an accident that COVID lockdowns are mainly affecting one of the last bastions of independent small business in our economy- the independent restaurants? If they keep this up, we will have only the large chain restaurants left, just like they have done with retail. Amazon Dining coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
No it is not an accident! You are right! Communist Politicians Hate Small Business. Small Business is harder to control than Big Business. Big Businesses usually fall right into the Communists Lap.