This is somewhat old news, but still worth mentioning. Back in February, Republicans in the General Assembly kept the Perdue regime from lowering the estate tax exemption and thus confiscating more wealth from citizens. This American Family Business Institute post has the details.
Perhaps this indicates that the tide has turned. For decades, big spending politicians usually got their way and were able to extract more and more from people for the purposes they (the politicians) wanted. The burden of government steadily grew as resources were diverted from uses determined by personal and business concerns to uses determined by politics. Supposedly that was always for “the common good,” but political decisions are often driven instead by election cycles (“Will voting for this make me look good or will it give my opponent material for attack ads?”) and desire to butter up interest groups that can help in elections.
Taxation of all kinds shifts resources from the private sector, where they’re mostly used sensibly, to the political sector, where they’re often wasted. If more people are coming to that realization, government may have reached its high water mark.
