Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, who has circled the state blasting cities and counties for what he deems as “excessive and wasteful spending,” stopped in Orlando Friday to say the city wasn’t doing too bad, actually.

Standing next to a poster with numbers totaling $1.5 billion in alleged waste emblazoned next to the names of cities and counties, Ingoglia said his formula found Orlando’s excess spending totaled just $22.3 million.

But, he argued, that means there’s still room to shave off the property tax rate and save property owners some money on their bills.

“This is a relatively sane keel of spending in an insane spending environment,” he said. “You can cut this out of the budget easily.”

Mayor Buddy Dyer has argued that local governments feel the same burdens as

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