JB PRITZKER'S TAX AND FEE RECORD, 2019–2026
2019
1. Doubled the gas tax from 19¢ to 38¢ and set it to go up automatically every year
2. Raised the diesel tax 5¢ a gallon
3. Let Cook County towns add up to 3¢ more in gas tax
4. Raised car registration from $101 to $151
5. Raised EV registration from $34 every two years to $251 a year
6. Raised truck registration $50 to $100
7. Raised title fees from $95 to $150, and $250 for mobile homes
8. Raised the salvage title fee from $4 to $20
9. Raised trailer plates from $18 to $118
10. Raised the cigarette tax $1 a pack
11. New 15% tax on vapes
12. New 6% to 9% tax on parking
13. Raised the video gaming tax from 30% to 34%
14. New 15% tax on sports betting
15. New sales tax on online purchases from out-of-state sellers
16. Started charging sales tax on the value of car trade-ins over $10,000
17. New tax on Medicaid insurance companies
18. New taxes on cannabis
2020
19. Gas tax went up to 38.7¢
2021
20. Gas tax went up to 39.2¢
21. Limited how much businesses can write off for losses, so they pay tax even in years they lose money
22. Decoupled from federal depreciation for businesses
23. Raised taxes on foreign dividends
24. Brought back the franchise tax he'd promised to repeal
2023
25. Gas tax went up to 42.3¢
26. Gas tax went up to 45.4¢, the second hike in six months
27. Raised the title fee again, to $165
28. Raised the fee for your driving record from $12 to $20
2024
29. Gas tax went up to 47¢
30. Extended the limit on business loss write-offs
31. Raised the sports betting tax to as high as 40%
32. Cut the credit stores get for collecting sales tax for the state
33. Raised the video gaming tax to 35%
34. New hotel tax on room resellers
35. Expanded the tax on health insurers
36. Let your town add its own grocery tax without asking voters
37. Let towns raise sales taxes up to 1% without asking voters
2025
38. Gas tax went up to 48.3¢
39. Raised the tobacco tax from 36% to 45%, and added nicotine pouches
40. New 25¢ to 50¢ tax on every online sports bet
41. Raised the phone and telecom tax from 7% to 8.65%
42. New hotel tax on Airbnb and Vrbo
43. Started taxing companies on sales made by their affiliates with no presence in Illinois
44. Started taxing half of companies' overseas earnings
45. Took away write-offs for payments businesses make to their own overseas affiliates
46. Cut the property tax relief grant for schools
47. Decoupled from federal tax breaks for manufacturers
48. Signed the law authorizing a sales tax hike in Cook and the collar counties
49. Signed the law authorizing the biggest toll hike in state history: 45¢ more per toll, 30% more for trucks, with automatic increases every two years after that
2026
50. Extended the limit on business loss write-offs again
51. New fee on social media companies of up to 50¢ per user per month
52. New tax on crypto transactions
53. New tax on gains from small business stock
54. New 15% tax on fantasy sports
55. New 10% tax on digital ads
Illinois doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a Pritzker problem.
DSA candidate Tim Denson tries to sell the crowd on “democratizing the workplace” and says Walmart should belong to the workers.
Big mistake. The guy 6 ft away from him grew up in Venezuela. And he’s heard this communist fairy tale before.
DANIEL DI MARTINO: “So you want to take it [Walmart] from its owners and have the workers do what?”
TIM DENSON: “I want the workers to own it and get paid better and have better benefits and be able to provide better lives for their families.”
DI MARTINO: “We can buy shares in Walmart right now. In fact, all of the SpaceX workers became millionaires overnight.”
“You can start a workers’ cooperative right now. It’s legal, but under a socialist country, you’re not allowed to own your own property and start your own private corporation.”
Denson tried to refute Di Martino’s point. Then Di Martino dropped this line on him:
DI MARTINO: “It’s very easy to be a socialist in a capitalist country. It’s illegal to be a capitalist in a socialist country. That is the difference.”
[audience applause]
Then it got personal:
DI MARTINO: “When I had to go to the grocery store, Tim, I had to put my fingerprint in a scanning machine so that they would tell me what I was allowed to purchase.”
“And I could only go Mondays and Saturdays because we have to ration food, because that’s what happens when there’s no profit motive and the farmers, their food is confiscated because they had to sell it to the government and everybody else at the price the government tells the farmers.”
“My mom made chocolate bonbons for parties.”
“Well, people have a right to chocolate, so we had a price control on chocolate.”
“So my mom had to buy counterfeit chocolate, put it in black bags as if we were cocaine drug dealers. That’s what socialism was in Venezuela. That’s what worker ownership of the means of production is.”
“Where has it ever worked?”
Denson had no answer. Because there isn’t one.
To my fellow Democrats and Americans, this is why I want JB Pritzker gone.
He hit us with 63 tax and fee hikes since 2019. That’s about $86 billion extra taken from families and businesses. Doubled the gas tax from 19 cents to 38 cents and locked it to inflation forever so it just keeps going up. Seven of his eight budgets broke spending records, top one hit $55.9 billion. Illinois got the highest tax burden in America now, 53% higher than the national average. Highest combined state and local taxes and highest cell phone taxes too.
Truth in Accounting gave us an F on finances, worst unfunded pensions in the country. A Chicago taxpayer is sitting on about $79,500 in combined state and city debt. He signed a pension sweetener for Chicago cops and firefighters that adds like $11 billion more by 2055. Chicago’s pensions got over $50 billion in promises and only $14 billion in assets. We still got the lowest credit rating of any state.
He barely vetoes anything, under 1%, just 29 vetoes on almost 3,500 bills. Signed every single bill in the 2026 session, 395 of them. Promised to veto those partisan gerrymandered maps then signed them anyway. While he’s been in office 11 former state lawmakers pleaded guilty or got convicted, including Madigan on racketeering. No real ethics reform.
About 275,000 people left Illinois in his first term and took $35 billion in income with them. We’re on pace to lose a congressional seat after 2030. Private sector job growth basically nothing at 0.1%. Ranked 43rd in the country.
During COVID he dropped 119 executive orders. Extended the emergency 42 times and ruled by decree for 1,155 days, longer than 49 other states. Schools ranked 43rd for actual in-person learning. Auditor General found $5.24 billion in improper unemployment payments, $2.8 billion of that just gone to identity theft and never coming back.
Chicago Tribune linked him to Bahamas trusts that may have ducked millions in taxes while he was raising taxes on the rest of us. Cook County Inspector General said his family pulled toilets out of their Gold Coast mansion to get a $331,000 property tax break. His name came up on Blagojevich’s wiretaps too.
He’ll say 8 balanced budgets, 12 credit upgrades, bills backlog cleared, $2 billion rainy day fund. Those “balanced” budgets needed $86 billion in new taxes. The backlog got cleared with federal COVID money. That rainy day fund is nothing next to $90 billion in debt and the worst pension mess in America.
Elections coming. Read the receipts then go vote. We trying to fire JB Pritzker, man. This guy gotta go. That’s all we asking.
Legacy media will never run this list, so I will.
2018, Flint, Michigan: Elon funded filtration systems for schools with unsafe water. Over $480K.
2018, Thailand: SpaceX engineers built a mini-submarine within days to help rescue a boys' soccer team trapped in a flooded cave.
2020, COVID: He sourced and delivered ventilators and supplies to hospitals for free.
2021: He gave Tesla shares worth about $5.7 billion to charity.
2021: He funded a $100M XPRIZE for carbon removal, one of the largest incentive prizes ever.
2022: Starlink kept Ukrainians connected when their networks went down.
2022, Tonga: Starlink helped reconnect the island after a volcano cut its undersea cable.
Wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes: Starlink terminals keep showing up for rescuers and families.
And the biggest one, the one that's easy to miss: he's spent his fortune and 20+ years building clean energy, safer cars, and a future for humanity among the stars.
They call him a villain. The record says otherwise.
TIM ALLEN - ON TRUMP:
Whatever your feelings for Trump, these are some interesting points that Tim Allen makes. Put your hatred aside and think about these observations. 👇
Tim Allen wrote: Here are some interesting points to think about prior to 2020, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents and the 'Never Trump' Republicans and those thinking of "walking away" from the Democratic party:
- Women are upset at Trump's naughty words, they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.
- Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.
- No Border Walls. No voter ID laws. Did you figure it out yet?
- Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year. Her mom flies around the country speaking out about 'white privilege'. And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.
- President Trump's wall costs less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America!
- We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion nationally. We are fighting evil.
- They sent more troops and armament to arrest Roger Stone than they sent to defend Benghazi.
- 60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index. Today, they are 179th and their citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.
- Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145,600,000 to the Clinton Foundation. But Trump was the one investigated!
- Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union. President Trump Invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in.
- A socialist is basically a communist who doesn't have the power to take everything from their citizens at gunpoint. Yet!
- How do you walk 3000 miles across Mexico without food or support and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cellphone?
- Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wants to ban cars, ban planes, give out universal income and thinks socialism works. She calls Donald Trump crazy.
- Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones To get her to go away. I don't remember the FBI raiding his lawyer's office.
- I wake up every day and I am grateful that Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States of America. The same media that told me Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning, now tells me Trump's approval ratings are low.
- "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." —
Margaret Thatcher.
- Maxine Waters opposes voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings.
- President Trump said — "They're not after me. They're after you. I'm just in their way."
Now, go back & read this again like your future depends upon it, because it does!
And all of the above is still true today!
@DesireeAmerica4 The only thing he forgot was how they come to agreements for cities/states to build giant stadiums at taxpayer expense while making millions
@NEWSMAX Pathetic!! They regret it because their Pope is a Trump hating machine and most likely got reprimanded for attending. I’m done with the Catholic Church! They should all be ashamed of themselves!
🚨 American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Holds Rally For Jihadist Reps @AbdulElSayed and @RashidaTlaib 🚨
Not enough people are talking about American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten @rweingarten speaking at a rally for jihadists Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib and Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed yesterday.
The woman in charge of your children’s teachers’ unions is supporting Muslim candidates who are sympathetic to Sharia law and Islamic terrorism.
No wonder why so many American students are being brainwashed on their college campuses and inside public school classrooms to hate America, pick up Palestinian flags and riot in support of Islam in America.
The red-green alliance is real!
It will only get worse if Democrats win this November.