What Illinoisans want are drastic reforms that would return Illinois to competitive levels of service and tax burden. Those reforms include big ones like real pension reform, which would take a state constitutional amendment, and fair maps. They know dozens of smaller reforms are essential too, to right the ship. The last thing they want is another tax increase with no reforms, which is where we are headed. Confidence will plunge still further and the tax base will continue to shrink.
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.