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"A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country."
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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There is nothing in the column supporting the headline about fueling election denial. What a bullshit headline.
Does U-Line mistreat workers? Dump toxic materials into local streams? Commit tax fraud? Wake me up when you find something on that front. Until then, I don’t care.
Then again, Hillary and Abrams are both election deniers. How much silicon valley money have those campaigns burned through?
That social app on your phone is fueling election denial.
Are these people for real? Pot/Kettle much? All these Dem’s have is abortion and January 6th – which has been completely blown out of proportion with anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear. It was a set up.
When the Democrats lose big in the midterms they are going to have a meltdown, a temper tantrum like you’ve never seen.
Pretty sure it will be “the Russians” again
No, it’ll be Trump’s fault.