With Illinois retiree health insurance shortfalls at $55 billion, according to Wirepoints, taxpayers in the state are on the hook for a total of $530 billion. That means the average tax-paying Illinois household owes $110,000 toward that shortfall, an increase of $20,000 per household since 2018.
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.