The preliminary analysis of Illinois officials pointed to non-wage taxes like capital gains and dividends playing a large part in the revenue surge.
“As a result, this significant one month overperformance cannot safely be extrapolated into future underlying growth,” according to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
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.