One of the most frustrating aspects of covering Georgia’s legislature is that you find yourself writing the same stories about the same set of issues, year after year. There is a group of stale ideas that are endlessly recycled as “solutions” to all our civic problems: a balanced budget constitutional amendment, a flat tax, health savings accounts, zero-based budgeting, drug tests for food stamp applicants. No matter what happens, these proposals will get a new bill number every two years when a new legislative term starts.