Indiana was a bit more extravagant in its job-poaching campaign, launched in 2011. The state invested $250,000 in the initiative, boasting its lower corporate and income tax rate as it posed the question on billboards and digital media in The Prairie State: “Illinoyed by higher taxes?” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker now is pitching Illinois as an “oasis” for abortion care in the Midwest, where a majority of states have restrictive abortion laws on their books.
First they have to find companies so into wanting/needing abortions for their employees that they’d be willing to put up with IL’s taxes and business-adverse policies – not the least of which is IL workers compensation.
I keep thinking “unicorns,” but they may be out there.
Non-profits, NGOs, unions, government, Giga-corporations (deep state parts) communists, Bolsheviks, and other enemies of America will all flock to IL. Red blooded Americans will exit IL.
Riverbender
3 years ago
I would think State tax rates are more important than employee abortion availability to a company. Then we have have workman’s comp insurance rates under the Illinois plaintiff favorable Illinois court system and then we have energy prices….
Fed up neighbor
3 years ago
Hey Pritzker word of note, please consider working hard on keeping businesses in Illinois don’t worry about Indiana, please JB don’t turn Illinois into a butcher shop.
Ataraxis
3 years ago
This is a fantasy, no company of an size is moving to Illinois because of abortion.
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.
First they have to find companies so into wanting/needing abortions for their employees that they’d be willing to put up with IL’s taxes and business-adverse policies – not the least of which is IL workers compensation.
I keep thinking “unicorns,” but they may be out there.
Keep looking, JB.
Non-profits, NGOs, unions, government, Giga-corporations (deep state parts) communists, Bolsheviks, and other enemies of America will all flock to IL. Red blooded Americans will exit IL.
I would think State tax rates are more important than employee abortion availability to a company. Then we have have workman’s comp insurance rates under the Illinois plaintiff favorable Illinois court system and then we have energy prices….
Hey Pritzker word of note, please consider working hard on keeping businesses in Illinois don’t worry about Indiana, please JB don’t turn Illinois into a butcher shop.
This is a fantasy, no company of an size is moving to Illinois because of abortion.