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By the end of this year, Chicago taxpayers will have footed a $255 million bill for illegal immigration. Much of the funding, though, is going to pay NGO workers exorbitant salaries. One healthcare staffing company, for example, had some employees earning $14,000 in just a single week; another invoice showed a nurse earning $20,000 in a week.
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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Check out the cost for jumpers in New York.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/nyc-migrant-crisis-could-soon-cost-12b-mayor-adams/
That would be $40K per person per year or $160K for a family of 4 per year or $120K for 1 person in 3 years or $19.23 per hour based on 40 hours without working. How many families in the U.S. make $160K for 4 people?
on top of all else,
Next up:
migrant taxes
Wait till BJ defunds CPD, so illegals can have big screen TVs, sex changes and abortions
Don’t forget to throw in a few bucks for the illegals to try their luck at the casino.
Save a lot of money in the long run – DEPORT ALL OF THEM!