He gets fact checked, an amazing process the media has only just discovered, that can be applied to Illinois democrats:
- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is mounting a full-court press to overhaul the state income tax, and critics are equally aggressive in trying to stop him. That’s led to a lot of questionable claims on both sides about the financial upside of Pritzker’s plan to switch Illinois to a graduated tax from a flat tax.
Pritzker fired yet another volley recently during an address before two big business lobbying groups that oppose his plan. The case he made for a graduated tax, which the governor calls a “fair tax,” was one we hadn’t heard before.
“States with a fair tax create jobs and grow their economies faster than we do,” Pritzker said.
It’s not our role to weigh in on the merits of the graduated vs. flat-tax debate. But in the past we have fact-checked sweeping assertions from both sides that failed to measure up on closer inspection. Pritzker’s recent claim, we found, doesn’t hold up much better.
Illinois Policy is attempting to throw up roadblocks and they need people to get involved:
It has to be filed before 1600 hours today. Every name counts.
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