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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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Oh Boy we’re open for business. Crying about not enough help! Haven’t seen any jammed roads to enter the city? What do you need more help? You’re not going to have customers. Who in their right mind would come to Chicago for anything? Gun battles and fire fights. Gun crews patrolling LSD or whatever they want to call it. Dead everywhere, bodies burning in vacant lots. Yea! Come to Chicago! Chicago is such a great place, Police can’t have days off. What does that tell you?
Civil war is forthcoming
Trump Won Blvd
Again, wage slaves needed to facilitate the collection of taxes for pensioners.
They all cried when Pritzker and lightfoot shut them down now there crying again when they are allowed to fully reopen pound sand you cry babys
How is any of this business owners fault, assuming few of them voted Democrat? Other than having a business in a $ocialist $hithole, I don’t blame business owners for the PUA $300 a week paying people to stay home. 25 states so far have rejected the funding.
1 year to get ready and we are not! Democrats go figure