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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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Yep – not going. Enough is Enough with the division this state is causing and I for one will not support any of it.
Right along with you
Do any of these places serve alcohol?
““There are people who are anti-vax or anti-requiring proof of vaccination, and those people, we just have to say the science is with us right now.””
Your bar will be jam packed with typhoid marys, who will spread the sickness to everyone because they themselves are asymptomatic.