"You owe us another editorial to live up to the editorial’s headline. -State Rep. Gene Ward "

Gene, Gene, Gene.  You stepped in it now.  If you go back to that article, 9/10 of it dealt with all the tax "inventions" legislatures were capable of authoring ALL due to the "consultants" they hired to help invent them.  Consultants YOU hired for taxation.  The answer has been in front of your face all along and it concerns me that YOU can't see it.  Did it not occur to you to, instead, hire "consultants" to seek the very answers you are turning to an editor to answer?  You can hire them for SPENDING but unable to bring yourselves to do the same for REDUCTIONS of spending?  Same process Gene  ... different objectives.  And if reduced spending was EVER an objective, it would consultants should have already been hired.