“When it comes to unemployment insurance, workers compensation insurance, and liability insurance, all those things are higher in our state than in neighboring states,” state Rep. David Friess said. “As a result, the cost of doing business is run up in our state. We cannot compete. There are reasons why people are leaving our state.”
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.