To bring working people back into the job market, State Senator Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago) is leading an initiative to offer businesses a tax credit to hire employees who lost their job due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This moronic idea comes back every few years like a nasty disease. Hopefully, it will occur to somebody that the tax credits would be taken mostly by companies that would be hiring anyway. That’s how this idea usually dies, but you never know with the IL General Assembly.
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.
This moronic idea comes back every few years like a nasty disease. Hopefully, it will occur to somebody that the tax credits would be taken mostly by companies that would be hiring anyway. That’s how this idea usually dies, but you never know with the IL General Assembly.