* Mark Maxwell interviewed Richard Guebert of the Illinois Farm Bureau after yesterday’s simultaneous press conferences called to oppose the governor’s graduated income tax proposal. Watch starting at the :50 mark…

* Transcript…

Mark Maxwell, WCIA : Right now, Governor Pritzker and the House and Senate Democratic plan would start out by raising taxes only on the top 3 percent of income earners in Illinois. Those are people who earn more than $250,000 a year. It just so happens that some of the people speaking at these press conferences today fall into that category.

Richard Guebert, Illinois Farm Bureau: Those in that 3 percent tax bracket are gonna figure out a way not to pay the taxes and they have the resources to do that. And probably they may even leave the state.

Maxwell: Wouldn’t it raise your taxes?

Guebert: No. Not this, not under this proposal, it would not. But…

Maxwell: The 2018 990s for the Farm Bureau show that you make north of $300,000. [Image of the IFB’s 990 disclosure flashes on screen.]

Guebert: Um. Yes.

Maxwell: So wouldn’t this raise your taxes?

Guebert: Yes, it would.

Look, it’s no crime to make three hundo a year. Just cop to it. The extra tax he’d have to pay on income above $250K is pretty small anyway.

Follow-up questions have become a lost art with too many reporters. Maxwell would not be one of those reporters.

Also, farmers can’t just pick up their land and head to Indiana.