Pritzker: Americans Everywhere Are Still Paying ‘Too Much to Live’

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PRITZKER: “Prudence demanded that this year’s budget proposal seeks a discretionary spending increase that is less than one half of one percent. It levels off and in some cases reduces programs that are important to me — some of which were proposals of my own. But I believe that the imperative of responsible governance and overcoming the fiscal irresponsibility of past decades must come ahead of the interests of any one politician, of any one program, or any one party. That doesn’t mean that we can’t make transformative progress. We won’t let headwinds from Washington stop us from addressing the fact that Illinoisans, like Americans everywhere, are still paying too much for groceries, too much for housing, too much for electricity, too much to live. Everything is just too damned expensive.”