“Rank-and-file members should be involved in how we allocate the new revenues that are a result of economic performance and growth and not the result of new tax increases,” Deputy Minority Leader Tom Demmer, R-Dixon, said, adding new revenues can be combined with “commonsense ways to reduce spending in government that seem at least to have bipartisan support right now.”
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.