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Billionaire Democrat JB Pritzker Responds To Zohran Mamdani’s Anti-Billionaire Message
Time ^ | Aug 10, 2025 9:50 AM PT | Solcyré Burga

Posted on 08/11/2025 8:44:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/11/2025 8:44:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The games billionaires play is that they their wealth wrapped up in their companies or their foundations. So, their net worth are mostly not subject to taxation.

Then they advocate for socialism, because socialism needs high taxes to pay for it. In short, it is we more modest people that pays for socialism and not the billionaires.


2 posted on 08/11/2025 8:49:19 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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Zohran Mamdani needs to live in a refrigerator box on the steps of NYC City Hall.


3 posted on 08/11/2025 8:52:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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He needs to go back to Kenya


4 posted on 08/11/2025 9:10:27 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: nickcarraway

Prickster knows that when you have his kind of money you don’t need to bother with campaigning and all that nonsense. You just donate a buttload of money to the stupidest Republican with the least chance of winning, then sit on your fat ass while the suckers go for it.


5 posted on 08/11/2025 9:42:44 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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Useful idiots.


6 posted on 08/11/2025 10:08:04 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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“Frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.”

I wouldn't mind if Mamdani eliminates some of that inequality with Pritzker's money.

7 posted on 08/11/2025 10:38:26 PM PDT by Angelino97
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Pritzker has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes, in part due to his family’s ownership of the Hyatt Hotel chain.

Wait, what? The dude is a second hand billionaire?

8 posted on 08/11/2025 11:55:04 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Illinois something like the bottom 3rd personal Freedoms.


9 posted on 08/12/2025 1:16:49 AM PDT by roving
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I’d like to know what “rights” are being taken away from anyone under Trump.


10 posted on 08/12/2025 4:07:35 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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The #2 greaseball Governor on the planet. Newscum is still the #1 greaseball.


11 posted on 08/12/2025 4:14:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (They brought down the WTC now we're electing them to all government positions in the U.S.)
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The last thing the upwardly stratified want is upward mobility for anyone else. Marxism was created for just that reason.


12 posted on 08/12/2025 5:28:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“How much money you have doesn’t determine what your values are,” J.B. Pritzker

WORDS


13 posted on 08/12/2025 5:34:04 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Anti-Billionaire = We’re already billionaires, we just don’t want anyone else to be billionaires.


14 posted on 08/12/2025 5:45:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Eat the rich...except for me”


15 posted on 08/12/2025 5:49:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: Texas Eagle

Yup—Pritzker was born wealthy.

He is trying to convince the Democrats he is really just like them by spouting Democrat talking points.

From the Wikipedia article on the guy:

“Pritzker has said that certain overseas trusts for which he was the designated beneficiary were set up by his grandfather and are used only for charitable contributions, yielding no personal benefit to him”

He said it so it must be true.

Lol.


16 posted on 08/12/2025 5:55:27 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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The games billionaires play is that they their wealth wrapped up in their companies or their foundations. So, their net worth are mostly not subject to taxation.
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Other than the property tax and sales taxes (including tariffs), we mainly tax income, not net worth. This is as it should be because wealth inequality is not bad per se. Wealth should not be taxed at all unless it has been accumulated by theft, slavery, feudalism, monopoly, etc. Prosperous countries are nor obsessed with making everyone equally poor.


17 posted on 08/12/2025 6:38:38 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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“Wealth should not be taxed at all unless it has been accumulated by theft, slavery, feudalism, monopoly, etc.”

There needs to be one more item added to the list.

If the wealthy get involved in politics so they can use the power of the state to stomp on people then all their wealth should be confiscated.


18 posted on 08/12/2025 6:42:02 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is part of the rats triangulation play and it’s BS.


19 posted on 08/12/2025 7:38:58 AM PDT by iamgalt
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“Billionaire Democrat JB Pritzker Responds To Zohran Mamdani’s Anti-Billionaire Message”

Zohran responded: “Except for you JB, of course.”


20 posted on 08/12/2025 11:50:08 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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