Judging Freedom - IL giving $1.8 billion back to taxpayers.

Episode Date: April 8, 2022

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Save $80 with code SPACE80 at Talkspace.com. Hello there, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, April 8, 2022. It's about 2.30 in the afternoon here on the east coast of the United States. Please remember to like and subscribe to Judging Freedom. You expand our audience and make our message a lot more popular to a lot more people. Any chance that I can to praise the other side of the aisle, so to speak, I like to do it. I mean, I am the enemy of big government, particularly bloated government that spends more than it takes in and takes in too much to begin with. One of the great examples of that is the state of Illinois. However, the liberal

Democratic governor of Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker, just announced a suspension of the gasoline tax for a year and a suspension of the sales tax on groceries for a year. That's a great thing. There shouldn't be any tax on food. Food is expensive enough. There shouldn't be any tax on gasoline, particularly in those parts of the country where you must drive in order to get from A to B, from home to church, from synagogue to home, from clothing store to food store to grocery store to home. So Governor Pritzker, I applaud you for suspending the state sales tax on gasoline and the state sales tax on groceries. The governor is also about to refund $1.8 billion in already paid and collected state income tax. That's not the way to do it. Refunding money already collected costs money and wastes money. Instead of sending them a check, which will look like it's coming from you, governor, just lower the income tax rates for the next time around so we don't get into the business of printing and signing and mailing checks.

We just take less of the good people's money from them. Have a nice weekend, everyone. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.