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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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Ramn was one of the few Democrats in my life I’ve ever voted for. I picked him over the other losers running for Mayor many years ago. He’s a Clinton liberal and these days they’ve been exiled out of the Democrat party that’s been hijacked by the progressives. The centrist Democrats are equidistant from Republicans and progressives these days and they have no friends or love from either.