By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail
During discussion in Senate Finance Committee Monday on how to close a potential $300 million fiscal hole that a proposed phase-out of a variety of personal property taxes would blow into county, school board and municipal budgets, Deputy Revenue Secretary Mark Muchow made a very astute observation.
Muchow — one of the sharpest minds ever to grace the hallways of the Capitol — noted that if the state’s dirt-low...