In Pritzker’s Illinois, workers saw 0% real wage growth in 7 years, while lawmakers got $34,000 in raises and now make $101,450.
Real pay fell after inflation. Illinois dropped from 13th to 26th once living costs were counted. The rest of the Midwest grew while Illinois lost ground.
Cook County homeowners just took a $593 million property tax hit, due October 1. Property taxes are up 27% since he took office. He signed the lawmaker raise in June.
@JBPritzker is campaigning as a champion of working families.
The only ones who got a raise sit in Springfield.
Source: @illinoispolicy
Gov. Pritzker hiked Illinois’ gas tax by 154%.
But did you know he cut taxes on private-jet fuel? Eliminating a per-gallon environmental fee.
Motorists: +154%
Private jets: Tax cut
When he says he’s fighting for working families, he means the ones with private jets.
Vince Gill, singing I Will Always Love You at his concert in Kansas City. This was his way of honoring Dolly’s memory. He broke on the first line of the first chorus and it broke me. 😭😭😭
Note: This is not my footage. It was shared by a friend of mine on Facebook. It’s not her video, either, and I don’t know where she got it from, so I can’t give proper credit.
If Walmart can pay some guy to watch me struggle to scan my produce at the self-checkout, plus have two more guys watching the cameras to make damn sure I scan every item, maybe they can just pay for one more cashier at the regular checkout line.
One of my buddy’s sons skipped college and became an electrician at 18.
He was told either college or military were his only two options.
His parents weren’t exactly excited when he went to trade school. Actually they were a little embarrassed.
Most of their friends’ kids were going off to universities. Their son was showing up to job sites at 6am.
By 21 he was making $90k
By 24 he had his master electrician license making over $120k
At 27 he started taking his own jobs on the side for a total of $200k
Last year at 29 his little “electrician business” did $1.8M with 4 vans.
Funny how that works.
His parents used to explain why he didn’t go to college.
Now they tell everyone he owns an electrical company.
We need more 18-year-olds to know this path exists.
Day 229 tagging @mikeroweworks until more parents start bragging about trade school too.
Consider to RT if you agree.
JB Pritzker cut a CROOKED backdoor deal to drain $1.1B from our roads for Chicago transit. Now he’s hitting working families with the LARGEST toll hike in state history.
Fire Pritzker. Save our state.
JB Pritzker has spent eight years taxing Illinois families to death, and voters have had enough.
He’s unpopular. He’s under 50%. And this race is within reach.
We can and will beat JB Pritzker.