The governor's talking about Ken Griffin, who's the billionaire former Chicagoan who tried to get a sort of billionaire surtax, passed here on the ballot. And Governor Pritzker was able to defeat that and no, the other way around. I believed that we needed a graduated income tax in the state of Illinois, that I should pay more and that working class people should pay less. Correct. He did not like that system. He wanted to pay a flat tax and the same as somebody who's just a working stiff. And he didn't want to pay anymore. (20:02–20:10)
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Asserts support for a graduated income tax in Illinois, advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy and lower taxes on the working class.
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