These bad bills show how state lawmakers waste their time and your tax dollars

This coming Tuesday, we will know the holidays are really over by the trail of cars heading to Frankfort from all corners of Kentucky. It’s time to get down to the very serious business of the General Assembly.

Or it would be if we could take it more seriously. This is the legislative body, after all, that has done a fine bipartisan job of over the past two decades avoiding serious tax reform at the same time they watched their public pension system drip down the drain and one of most equitable school funding systems in the nation turn upside down. And don’t forget the de-funding of public colleges and universities.

To that end, this column is going to start a Bad Bill Watch, just to show you what legislators are working on when they could be addressing issues of substance and consequence. It’s not about party or philosophy, it’s an examination of the political pandering, self-dealing and downright nonsense that’s paid for with your tax dollars every year.