J. B. Pritzker

If someone has committed a crime, we pursue them.

We arrest them.

We convict them.

Or, you know, they go to trial.

If they get convicted, they get put in prison.

I mean, we've been doing that.

And we always ask for help.

I want to be clear.

always ask for help from federal law enforcement agencies, FBI, DEA, ATF.

We want to get the guns and the drugs and the gangs off of our streets.

And we usually have worked very closely with the federal government to get that done.

I'm a Democrat.

I believe that it is our obligation to have a government that stands up for the middle class, the working class, the most vulnerable.

You've got to pay for that somehow.

And it shouldn't fall on the backs of the middle class and the working class.

Mostly, it should fall on the backs of the people who can afford it.

And so I really believe in a graduated income tax.

We have constitutionally in the state of Illinois a flat tax.

I know there are lots of people who like that fact, but mostly they're the wealthiest people who like that fact because they don't like the graduated income tax that exists at the federal level either.

You call it a journey.