So reports the AJC in this morning’s recap of all the ways the state capital is attempting shift blame and burden of their now $3 billion deficit to local governments with legislation like the hotly debated property assessment cap (a.k.a. the “wishful thinking bill”) and increased homestead exemption.

I certainly recognize that cities are the product of the state, but if our lovely state legislators think that they should be helping tax payers with lower tax bills in this difficult time, perhaps they should first lead by example.  Let’s see some ways in which the state will cut its own revenues, in addition to hampering local gov’t's, in order to help out the beleaguered taxpayer.  $3 billion deficit be damned!

Until that hell-freezes-over day, I’ll just continue to see these efforts as a way State Republicans shift their own philosophical burden of “tax cuts” to the local level, while they continue to show little ability to live within their own means down at the State House.