If Riley Gaines was complaining about having to pay a higher property tax than a transgender neighbor, our elected officials in Columbus no doubt would have sprung into action by now.
Countless hours have been spent in the Statehouse in the past year on hearings, developing legislation, holding press conferences and taking votes to dramatically restrict gender-affirming care and to make sure youths wouldn’t have to compete against transgender athletes as Gaines, the then-University of Kentucky swimmer and now popular legislative hearing witness, did a couple years ago.
Addressing the long-brewing tax storm that’s pouring down this month on many Ohio homeowners? Not so much.
“This is a failure of our elected leaders in Columbus and the state government,” Zach Stacy, a Butler County resident running for the Ohio Legislature in the March 19 Republican primary, wrote in a recent Facebook post. “There was plenty of time and money spent on political BS in Columbus, and no focus on real dinner-table issues that affect real people.”