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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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And the residents of these south towns complain of huge increases in their property taxes.
How’d you like to be a resident of Thornton Township, with your modest home and modest family income, knowing your tax dollars are paying this guy’s salaries? According to what I read, an Illinois legislator’s work is estimated to be 80 percent of a full-time job. That means this guy’s Thornton Township supervisor job is part-time or that he’s working a combined total of over 70 hours per week in his two jobs. Which scenario do you think it is? If it’s the former, that would mean, using the salary figure in the report, he’s making over $200K in a… Read more »
Great work if you can get it!
Time to the STATE to mandate the elimination of townships that don’t have over 1/2 the land AND 1/2 population that is not in a town or city.
Yeah, Napoleon, unless there was a change from the salary schedule after 2020, you are doing something wrong. Don’t worry though, Tiffany apparently pulled the same BS before you so I guess in Democrat logic it justifies your salary.
How dare Ben Bradley question you about this as if you did something wrong?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and the taxpayers in Thornton Township get fooled again.
Black on black legalized thievery at it’s finest in broke-ass south burbs! Disgusting.
hmmmm???, no claims of “systemic racial community disinvestment” (equity hustle bs) in Thornton Township….nobody left to hustle but your own on the low down
He is a public servant and deserves as much as he can grab. I hope he draws a large pension for both of the jobs. The state would not function without him. If the taxpayers do not like it, they are free to leave.
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Fixed it thanks. https://thelansingjournal.org/2025/07/08/foia-docs-reveal-six-figure-salaries-at-thornton-township/