As cleveland.com’s Anna Staver recently reported, the Ohio General Assembly -- seemingly helpless in addressing homeowners’ skyrocketing property taxes -- has for years showered businesses with all manner of sweetheart tax breaks, a number expected to be in the billions this year.

And four years ago, in a predictably quiet (and mostly bipartisan) move, the legislature abolished the Ohio Tax Expenditure Review Committee, which an earlier cohort of legislators had created in a unanimously passed 2016 bill. That law required the panel to make recommendations “as to the continuation, modification, or repeal of existing tax expenditures.”

“Tax expenditures” are a polite term for the tax breaks Ohio legislators of both parties have long ladled out to politically favored businesses and occupa

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