That would be nice, I agree. How much revenue would they generate by hiking property taxes .1%? How much pressure could they take off the poor and middle class by exempting groceries from sales tax? Of course, Riley tried a major overhaul, and we saw how that turned out. Grover Norquist and his hoard of flying monkeys descended on the state and scared it into voting no, supported by the same people who had just put Riley in office.
And with the recent revelations that Mike Hubbard has completely mismanaged his personal finances, is it any wonder that the state budget is hosed?