Pick up today’s newspaper, and the first thing that’s likely to catch your eye is:

The new plan: more taxes for all

Why do we need “more taxes for all”? Look to the left of that headline, and you’ll read this paragraph:

An efficiency expert finds too may supervisors, bloated costs and a hobbling bureaucracy. The findings will go to a task force. Actual changes could take years.

That paragraph is tied to a blurb about a story describing UNC’s administration, but it could apply to much of state government.

What’s the alternative to “more taxes for all.” Joe Coletti has some ideas.