No surprise that the General Assembly has done essentially nothing to hold down the skyrocketing property taxes that Ohio homeowners pay. For one thing, the issue is complex. And our legislature doesn’t do complex. For another, it’s much easier to bellyache about a problem than craft a practical solution.

Solutions take work. But it requires virtually no homework for our La-Z-Boy lawmakers to sound off about headline-grabbing, hot-button social issues – “gender,” anyone? – rather than address the fact that 1969 (you remember: Richard Nixon was president, and the Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar” the year’s hit single) was the last year Ohio’s per-capita personal income was larger than the national per-capita.

Turns out those nifty tax breaks for fat cats, and property-tax abatements for real-estat

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