Greg Hinz: "If you don't believe jacking up taxes on Illinois companies will drive away business, ask the people whose job it is to help companies pick locations.... Outside experts I talked to pretty much said the same thing. Pritzker’s proposal, taken in the wake of the defeat of his vaunted graduated income-tax amendment last November, is just one more straw on the back of an already staggering camel.
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.