The editorial board last week pulled its pants down to say they really just don’t know what they’re talking about.

We are national leaders in taxing districts, debt and kicking the cans down the road. Depending on which report you look at, in addition to mortgages, car payments, student loans and credit card bills, every household in Illinois is also on the hook for another $50,000 because of our state’s debt.

Last week, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation that “prevents retired police officers from opting into the pension system a second time if they return to the force as police chief or join another municipality’s force.”

Eight years after Illinois approved a massive capital plan for university campuses in the state, half of the largest new projects at state schools never began construction and are now canceled or indefinitely halted.

Comment: Great piece by the Tribune. We wrote in 2014 about other garbage in the horrible “Jobs Now” bill passed in 2009 with bipartisan support.