Why can't Kentucky fix its broken tax code?

Kentucky's tax code is so outdated and filled with loopholes that experts say it has little chance of generating the billions of dollars of revenue that state government needs in the years ahead to continue providing the services Kentuckians have come to expect — even after the economy recovers.

The Courier-Journal report Tom Loftus explores this crisis in part one of a two-part series examining Kentucky's tax system.