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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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Why not. Chicago doesn’t need to enforce actual immigration laws….Woodford County should just call themselves a sanctuary county where your constitutional rights won’t be violated from virtue signaling group think.
If I did this in Cook County I would inspected, fined, arrested and the pilloried by the King of the Ward for daring to look him in the eye. That’s just the alderman. The others would pile on, calling me a murderer.
JB would say I’ve insulted him and the dead.
They would guarantee that my business would never reopen.
Thank God.
This is the poll that counts. Dictator Jabba can shove his fake news poll