Gov. Mike DeWine’s Property Tax Working Group, co-chaired by Pat Tiberi, president and CEO of the Ohio Business Roundtable, and former state Rep. Bill Seitz of the Cincinnati area, reported Tuesday that the zooming taxes burdening Ohio homeowners could be reined in, or least made more understandable, by rewriting a raft of state tax laws. That assumes our all-talk, no action General Assembly actually does something.

The kernel of Ohio’s property tax mess, detailed in another recent report, is this: Ohio homeowners are staggering under ever-higher property taxes not because of runaway school boards but because the General Assembly has slashed the state’s share of public school costs.

Why? Because state legislators want to play Santa Claus for wealthy Ohioans – in say, Greater Cleveland’s

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