The additional contributions “would be helpful,” Fitch Ratings said in its analysis of the proposal Pritzker presented last month for the budget year that begins July 1. “But on their own, they would not materially affect Fitch’s view that the state’s budget remains structurally unbalanced.”
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.
And it’s already spent all in the wrong places.
And keep in mind, that’s assuming the revenue is not already earmarked for something else. (Which we already know it is)