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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Speed cameras are like crack cocaine for politicians. They can’t get enough of that revenue. Soon JB will issue an executive order to install cameras in well to do suburbs, insisting that they pay their fair share.
It’s the only dependable revenue stream. She’ll double down for the children and install more. Lori’s a hero, she’s saving lives. Teens and young adults need a safe environment to beat tourists in the open street.
I have not driven in any part of Chicago for over two years. But when I did I never, ever dared to turn right on red. No matter how much they honk. The city once sent me a ticket for right on red, I learned my lesson. Not that I’ll ever set foot in Chicago again.
And Butedgeedge wants to line the highways with these things.
Wait…!
Government is using suspect technologies to fleece their citizens…?!?!??
FACT: LIGHTFOOT SPEED CAM SCAM IS ROBBING DRIVERS BLIND — (1) Lightfoot Is Breaking Her Campaign Promise To Stop Using Traffic Cameras For Revenue, Rather Than Safety; (2) Studies Show That Speed Cameras Do Not Reduce Accidents; (3) This Is Exactly The Kind Of Predatory Ticketing That Hits Poor And Minority Drivers The Most, Driving Them Into A Cycle Of Never Ending Debt; (4) Lightfoot Has Repeatedly Screwed Drivers To Grab Easy Money — Including Issuing Thousands Of Predatory Parking Tickets During The Pandemic After Promising Not To — Raising The Regressive City Gas Tax 60 Percent During The Same… Read more »
No proof — but I expect the law-abiding middle class pays these fines in order to avoid bureaucratic hassle when renewing plates and drivers’ licenses while the scofflaws ignore the so-called laws and seldom experience their enforcement. Warrants are about as threatening as arraignments or littering citations under the contemporary “rule of law.”
Such a racist statement, Mr Lightfoot is a person of color therefore you may not criticize him