Editorial: We recommend Illinoisans vote ‘yes’ on the Fair Tax amendment – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The cost of that debt eats deeply into state income and services and has left Illinois with America’s lowest credit rating, at just above junk status. Republicans within and outside Illinois love to lay all this on the state’s current Democratic power structure, but in fact it’s an ongoing crisis that has been driven by decades of inadequate pension funding under both parties."