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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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This guy Miller knees must be getting callouses on them
does anyone actually read this guy’s columns?
a serial enabler of Illinois’ dumbest political animals, Little Richie Miller again rises to the defense of that less-than-esteemed fraternity. Little Richie makes excuses for the Thug Element, disguising his reality-defying excuses with a cloak of ‘fairness’. Who said that this get-out-of-jail-free law was a bad idea? All of us. That is, all of us regular folks who knew we’d pay the price for this incredibly bad policy borne of DEI and equity.Trojan Horses. Among thousands of other incidents of SAFE-T caused mayhem, we have a young lady fighting for her life, burned both by the perp who poured gasoline… Read more »
Rich Miller = idiot
nuff said
Once again, Miller shows his allegiance to the leftist cause. The money considerations aside, the fact remains that hundreds of people that belong behind bars are out doing whatever they want to.
With 70+ arrests this individual had no business being back on the streets. Perhaps if the victim was someone close to Miller maybe he might have looked at it differently. None the less Miller’s attempt to dismiss the whole situation as something that is merely “not perfect” understates the whole situation of the very serious matter. Nice try for a spin Miller, but no cigar for you today.