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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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Chicago jeers?
Not according to Neil Steinberg/Sun Times columnist.
Those two woke fools Durbin and Duckworth are part of the problem.
Coincidentally, Duckworth will now start to live very close to the BA HQ.
Tammy & Dick.
Political hacks.
Please pay property taxes Duckie.
I guess Boeing isn’t all that into equity and abortion. Weird.
Durbin’s embarrassment is well worth it.
Do nothing Durbin and Dimwit Duckworth can’t figure out why Boeing would leave. It’s funny, because everyone else in the state knows why. Get ready for more you two losers. Your social justice warrior agenda and insatiable appetite to tax businesses and residents will drive many more out of this state.
Poor old Tammy and Dick crying for the headlines. Who want’s to bet their sour grapes are more about losing the standard campaign contributions rather than the state losing the jobs?
Well you haven’t been too successful have you Tammie? In every study Illinois ranks 2nd or 3rd worst in business climate. Downtown crime out of control. Highest or second highest property taxes in the US for Boeing employees. Public schools for employees’ children a national joke. Second highest sales taxes in the US downtown for Boeing shoppers and workers. Geez1! I wonder why they would move.
BA employees do not have to worry about marxism, CRT, and genderism being pushed on their school kids in Va. Taxes are lower also. Premptive also – IL Leftist Democrats will push for higher Corp taxes after Pritzker re-election.