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.
If you are Jewish, does it occur to you that the democrats not only don’t have your back, they hate you?
And reading through my one year chronological Bible, Jerusalem Jerusalem is just fallen to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The remaining Jews including the prophet Jeremiah who was approached by the Jews asking what should we do, God tells Jeremiah to tell the people to stay and do not go to Egypt, but they say when we served the Queen of heaven, things were so good and now we’re not going to believe you, we’re going to go to Egypt. God told Jeremiah to tell them if you go to Egypt you’re going to die there very few will return. It took… Read more »
Giving credence to the argument that Jewish groups could not be adequately protected means that there is a consensus in government that Palestinian protesters are volatile, violent and ungovernable. Why is there no dissent by CAIR challenging the assumptions and promoting equal rights for other minority groups, rather than a wink and a smile at the suppression of Jewish rights to speak? Where is the ACLU? Where is the People’s Law Firm? Free speech is precious and was hard won, We surrender at our peril.
Dems are pro antisemitism, pro Hamas
This pathetic behavior by the Government of Chicago, Illinois and the United States against the Jewish American Citizens of this country is obscene. What possible reason could they give for not allowing these citizens to protest just like the moron Palestinian supporters?