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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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JB the Hutt is the George Wallace of ineffective Covid policies.
“Masks now! Masks forever!!”
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Stop this now or you will be wearing them until the day you die.
It might end after June primaries depending on how strong turn out is. A massive Republican primary might scare the bejesus out of fatty and force him to take corrective measures for his own chances in November 2022. Otherwise, there’s no impetus to remove the mandates, and he’s surrounded himself with people who treat their masks as more holy than the Rosary.
Pritzker has a new variant to talk about now. The mask mandate will never end.
Yep. When I heard about the new variant, the first thing I thought of was – guess we’ll be wearing the masks here for months more.