The “push tax,” which is akin to a sin tax on people who gamble in Oak Lawn, will assess users a penny for each push or play of a video gaming terminal beginning Jan. 1.
Existing video gaming regulations impose licensing fees on terminal operators. Oak Lawn charges $1,000 annually per operator and $500 annually per video gaming terminal. But the push tax is unique in that it assesses a tax on individual players.
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.