Wednesday, September 13, 2017

More tax increases on the way. Illinois is screwed!

Democrat Pritzker urges progressive income tax and single payer health care

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CHICAGO - Last week, Democrat gubernatorial hopeful J.B. Pritzker told a northside Chicago group he wanted to push Illinois into a progressive income tax system and favors single payer health care.
The Chicago businessman said he planned to "circumvent the state's constitutional ban on graduated/progressive income taxation."
He would not try to change the constitution at all, but would raise the presumably flat tax, then give "personal exemptions" to as many as it takes to do graduated/progressive taxation without calling it that, Jim Bowman of OakPark.com writes on his news blog.
"I'm running on this," Pritzker told them, without resorting to a constitutional convention, where "too many bad things can happen," he told an audience of 40 or so citizens in a meeting hosted by 40th Ward Alderman Patrick O'Connor.
O'Connor, a Democrat, has not yet endorsed in the race - despite having hosted primary candidates Pritzker and Chris Kennedy at ward meetings.
Bowman reports that Pritzker also said:
* He's opposed to taxing stock buying and selling, a "La Salle Street tax," because there's no longer a pit where signals are given but electronic buying and selling, and it's "easy" for them to move out of state. Pritzker instead wants to "keep traders here," because of lost "opportunities to tax their incomes."
  • He favors "a public option . . . single-payer" system " for health care.

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/13/2017

    Battle of the talentless billionaires.

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  2. Anonymous9/13/2017

    Kennedy

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    1. Anonymous9/14/2017

      Hell yeah Kennedy

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  3. Anonymous9/14/2017

    Typical democrat answer, spend more and raise taxes, never a thought about balancing a budget or god forbid cutting spending. Illinois in a race to the bottom, brought to you by the democratic party.

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  4. Anonymous9/14/2017

    Don't give Democrat politicians any more of your money.

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  5. Anonymous9/14/2017

    FLEE!!!!

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  6. Anonymous9/14/2017

    What does he know about making money he inherited it all......

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  7. Anonymous9/14/2017

    Tax cpd at BOURBON STREET

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