And, he’s referring to JB Pritzker, I think.
Found on Capitol Fax:
Rep. Jeff Keicher (R-Sycamore) was asked yesterday about Gov. JB Pritzker winning $1.4 million playing Black Jack in Vegas last year…
I have a problem with billionaires. I’m going to admit that I don’t know if I need my hand on Bible or what. I don’t trust billionaires. I don’t trust them because they’ve never had to make payroll with $0 in the bank. I don’t trust [billionaires] because of how they take care of their money like this. It was a $1.4 million win, wasn’t that approximately the number?
Billionaires are out of touch with reality, and we see that with how the governor has treated our most needy and vulnerable. We look at Meals on Wheels. We look at adults with disabilities in the long term care facilities. And we look at how we have continued to fund excess programs, violence interruption grants, health care for illegal immigrants. He has no basis in reality for what a dollar means the working people the state of Illinois.
My mom waited tables to keep a roof over my head after her and my father got divorced. I remember the mortgage company calling because at the time $323 was just too much for us to be able to meet. There were more days than dollars. We had the power shut off when I was a kid.
Until you’ve got a sense of reality of what a dollar means, you can’t judge accurately what needs to happen with the tax regiment. And I think the perfect example of that leader Davidsmeyer talked about, the increasing revenues that we’ve had over time since the governor took office, 40% additional they have continued year in and year out along the way to continue to raise taxes and fees each and every year, there’s an enhancement each and every year. How can that be? How? Yes, I understand things go up over time.
But the disconnect with reality, the disconnect for not knowing what a zero balance means in a checking account. I don’t trust billionaires. I don’t trust this governor. I didn’t trust the last governor. I’ve met a few billionaires in passing just because they happen to come down and lobby from time to time. I don’t trust them at all, because they’ve never had to be responsible. What they say goes in all of their experience up to this point in time.
So $1.4 million dollars in winnings, that is so absolutely disconnected. And I think if I do the math right in my head, that probably represents what a 35 year old, making $45,000 a year, would make from 35 to 65 years old, and he won it sitting there. Tell me how that relates to the common man.
