The states where property-tax rates are the highest didn’t change, despite the overall increase in property taxes nationwide. New Jersey had the highest effective property-tax rate at 2.2%, followed by Illinois (2.18%), Texas (2.15%), Vermont (1.97%) and Connecticut (1.92%). Hawaii had the lowest rate in the country at 0.37%, followed by Alabama at 0.44%.
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.