EFFORT SEEKING REVIEW OF SALES TAX EXEMPTIONS

The Tallahassee Democrat is is teasing a story for tomorrow's edition that three former statewide leaders --- Past Senate President John McKay, past State Comptroller Bob Milligan, and past Attorney General Bob Butterworth --- have begun an effort to put three constitutional amendments on next November's ballot. The effort seeks to force legislators to review the state's archaric tax code and it's numerous sales tax exemptions, which hasn't been done in 56 years.

UPDATE: Here's the story from today's Lakeland Ledger.

It's been done before, as this story from Gannett's Fl0rida Capital News shows from two years ago. The differences is that this time, the voters would try to force the Legislature to act, which is what the ballot inititative is supposed to do. (Emphasis mine) That's not to say that they will, because some of the business interests that would be directly affected are quite powerful. Of course, a review is no guarantee that anything will happen.