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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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After the Janus ruling, anyone who remains a member of the thieving grifter vermin scum CTU have no soul and has a special place in Hell waiting for them. Burn in agony for eternity.
How can CTU be even more a social justice shit-rat circus?
Janus FTW
I’m hoping a candidate for office will run on a platform to disband the public school system. Seriously, where does the word “education” appear in the US Constitution?