Brad Weisenstein, of the Illinois Policy Institute: "The problem here is public employee unions have a lot of cash and too much sway in Illinois – AFSCME only spent 21% of its money on representing workers in 2022, with the rest going to politics and other union priorities and costs. Pritzker was elected not to be a friend of the state unions, but to be the champion of taxpayers. We taxpayers expect him to control what government costs us."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Giving crooked corrupt union racketeers the power of collective bargaining is giving them a license to steal from the taxpayers