"This isn’t conspiracy theory or speculation; it’s a documented fact, exposed in a 2012 ProPublica Audio: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon says Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades – Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 3, 2026
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
No duh? That an unknown undergrad and pal with the remnants of the Weather Underground became a senator and then president in an astonishingly fast manner?
So, he’s President ‘Gerry Mander’ then…?
If it wasn’t for crooked IL Democrat politics, Obama would be sharing a prison cell with Tony Rezko.
Those of us with our eyes open have known Obama was a ‘project’ for some time.
Note that this story is based on detailed stories from Pro Public and The New Yorker, which certainly are not conservative outlets. Those stories are very damming. The Pro Publica article is here https://www.propublica.org/article/obamas-gerrymander and The New Yorker article is here: https://archive.ph/erQIO.