“We have created a system under the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act where you can use taxpayer money and the government to go after your enemies,” he said.
The withholding of payment against a business could be used as leverage against a business that’s not seeing eye-to-eye with a local labor union, Risch said.
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.