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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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I surmise that Wirepoints will find one the hard way. For example, the unlicensed uninsured driver that plows into your car, the family ahead of you in the hospital emergency waiting room, the woman with the SNAP card ahead of you at the Jewel or God forbid the carjacker of your vehicle or all those new kids that are now attending your child’s school.
They’re everywhere.