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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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So the big brains in Springfield want to ban common weapons that hundreds of thousands own and use legally and at the same time let criminals walk free with basically no ramifications for the criminal behavior?
No thanks. I will pass on that insanity.
The point of the law is to make YOU into the criminal. They hate you. They want you in jail or out of the state. They’ve doing this to punish you. And nothing will change their mind.
“the will of past Democratic leadership seemed to be to not overtly poke any big, cash-rich bears, like the National Rifle Association, or to alienate or electorally imperil conservative members of their Democratic caucuses.”
In other words, the Democrats’ constituents don’t want to ban “assault weapons”,
What exactly is an assault weapon? From what I can see the people in charge in Springfield are assault weapons. They keep trying to assault my Constitutional rights.
Ban them!
What’s missing in the whole ‘assault weapons’ discussion is comprehensive definition of the term.
Laws are being written and/or considered by individuals who either don’t know about guns and/or those who are too lazy to learn more about weaponry.
BTW: write all the laws you want about handguns and remember … CRIMINALS DON’T FOLLOW THE LAW, LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS DO. Therefore, you numbskulls in government, are working to disarm the WRONG GROUP.
The point of the law is to make YOU the criminal. Illinois residents purchased the most amount of guns of any state during the pandemic. Now our legislators want to turn all of those gun owners into criminals by banning their clips and making possession of otherwise lawful gun a crime. They’re doing this to punish their perceived political enemies. This is only about one thing – punishing their enemies and turning them into criminals
Considering the ‘soft on crime’ posture already in Cook and scheduled to be the law of the state, they need ‘easy pickings’ to arrest and prosecute, to make it look like Kim Foxx is doing her job.
What’s easier to arrest and prosecute than law-abiding citizens who don’t have a defense attorney on speed dial?
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They’re punishing you, the law abiding citizen, because they hate you. YOU are their political enemy. You supported Trump. You are a white supremacists nactzee. They want to ruin your life and put you in jail and destroy your livelihood. They’re doing this because they hate you. There is no other reason except that they hate you. They’d put you into death camps if they could. They’ll fill up our prisons with otherwise law abiding citizens for merely possessing an AR-15 because they hate you.