Governor JB Pritzker signed his $56B budget yesterday, bringing the number of tax and fee increases in his two terms to 63.
In his two terms, his tax increases have taken a cumulative $77 billion more from taxpayers, and this does not include an additional $8.5B a year higher property taxes since 2019.
Illinois residents now pay the highest state and local taxes and fees in the entire nation. Pritzker’s tax policies have throttled Illinois economy, which has produced less than 10K private sector job growth since Pritzker became governor.
It is not balanced. You are counting on a $200 million social media tax that will be challenged in court. You slighted pensions by over $5 billion. Your digital media tax will also be challenged in court. And even if it were considered balanced, it only happened with $800 million in tax increases.
A trillion dollar net worth IS NOT 1 trillion dollars.
We should not be trying to force owners to sell ownership of THEIR OWN companies so we can redistribute their wealth to others.
That’s wrong and doesn’t create the right incentives.
Someone who founded PayPal, built a car company and sends rockets into space becoming a trillionaire isn’t weird. Public servants making $174k becoming millionaires is.
Change my mind.
People forget when Happy Gilmore pushed his own caddie to the ground and received zero punishment. No other golfers came to the caddies defense. Where was the public outcry then?
Just to remind you of something that’s absolutely fucking insane.
THEY STILL ALLOW YOU TO VOTE IN CALIFORNIA FOR TWO MORE DAYS! AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO VOTE IS HANDWRITE AN EARLIER DATE ON THE ENVELOPE TO MAKE IT VALID.
They want you to believe this happened in the LA Mayors race…
3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day
Defies all mathematical probability, the law of averages and has never happened in US election history
No one with a functional brain believes this
The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.
When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.
Hey @GavinNewsom can you explain why California could count ballots faster in 1890 than they can today? And how is this remotely acceptable for any state in the 21st century? Thanks.