Brian Costin, of Americans for Prosperity-Illinois: "Pritzker’s administration has already showered selective subsidies on green energy, film production, electric vehicles and data centers — always celebrated with ribbon cuttings and press releases. But a 2018 Mercatus Center study found that if Illinois eliminated economic development incentives, it could lower the corporate income tax from 9.5 percent to 6.36 percent, the state sales tax from 6.25 percent to 5.75 percent, and the personal income tax from 4.95 percent to 4.75 percent with no loss of revenue."
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.