We're not trying to scare away Amazon. We've said Chicago is the perfect city for HQ2. But no one, including us, is happy about the situation here: a state snowed under by pension debt, struggling to pay bills and keep budgets intact, where the first solution always seems to involve raising taxes rather than slashing costs, killing fiefdoms and streamlining protocols and procedures. That's not only the responsible approach, it's the one likely to woo employers, Amazon among them.