Billionaire Illinois Dem Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday ripped socialist New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s contention that people of his net worth shouldn’t exist.
“Look, how much money you have doesn’t determine what your values are,” Pritzker fired back on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Mamdani had declared shortly after his shock Democratic primary win in June that he that he doesn’t want Americans to be allowed to amass billion-dollar fortunes. 3
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, 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,” he told “Meet the Press” at the time.
But Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, Sunday rattled