The Game of Thrones

I can’t get warm about any of the choices for Governor.

You pick the incumbent, more gridlock. You pick the other rich guy in the race, you get more taxes. I’m leaning toward writing in “none of the above.” Both candidates are filthy rich. J.B Pritzker is worth north of three billion dollars---Bruce Rauner is worth several hundred million dollars. Which goes to show you, money isn’t everything.

That brings us to an inexplicable story that might give us insight as to how you get so rich. J.B. Pritzker says he will pay $330,000 in taxes he owes on a mansion in Cook County. The Pritzker’s ripped the toilets out of the 12,500 square foot, three story home in order to have it appear “unlivable.” It became a Game of Thrones. He probably had ten johns in a space that big.  That got him a huge tax break. I think it gives us real insight into the next Governor and first lady’s minds. And it’s not pretty.

Do either of these candidates understand the lives we live in Fairfield, Illinois? Even remotely? The answer is simply, no.

Here’s a little information for you. I have one toilet. One. And if I yanked it, the tax bill would undoubtedly remain the same.

There’s rich…and then there unbelievably rich. When you reach a certain strata where the interest on your money could run our city government for a year….you cease to understand the plight of people who are trying to figure out how they are going to pay their property taxes.

I don’t hate rich people. I admire them if they made their fortune. I just expect them to be able to relate to the problems of the average person in southeastern Illinois.

These two guys don’t have a clue.