Ulrick Boesen, a spokesperson for the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, said that from a tax perspective, the bill won’t do much. “Introducing these carve-outs for individual products makes the sales tax less effective on what it is there to do. We need to look at the overall sales tax for all products rather than individual products.”
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.