Lake County Gazette

Dear Editor,

Coupled with the Governor’s tax hikes, SB 72 would bring soaring litigation costs 

that threaten to wipe out thousands of small businesses in Illinois. As a member of 

NFIB, the largest small business association in the United States, I can say 

definitively that thousands of businesses are in jeopardy and even more livelihoods 

are on the line if the Governor signs SB 72, and we strongly encourage him to veto 

the bill.

The COVID-19 recovery in Illinois has been slow, thanks in part to an increasingly 

anti-business environment. Now, with vulnerable small business owners facing 

myriad lawsuits from which they are unprotected, SB 72 threatens to force even 

more concessions—in the form of high interest rates—which could put them under 

for good. 

Luckily, HB 3360 was vetoed by Governor Pritzker earlier this year, but right now, 

legislators are focused on directing hefty court winnings to benefit government 

agencies instead. All this does is keep money out of the hands of hardworking 

Illinoisans in order to subsidize more bureaucracy. The Governor must protect 

businesses and veto SB 72 immediately.

Bob Goray

Owner, JS Goray, Inc.

Wauconda, IL