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.
The legislature that voted for this garbage needs to be held accountable, including JB, who constantly touts how “safe” Illinois is. I am not a fan of anything Cook County, but the process was broken long before it got to O’Neill Burkes desk. Why not constantly expose every person that voted for the SAFE-T act, how many criminals go on to commit more crimes because of the lax laws, and name those judges along with the felons that get to impose their liberal justice as they see fit. If she is the only person that can put a hold or… Read more »