Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.

Connecticut's property tax system has been broken for decades, and the state's politicians haven't fixed it. So Connecticut tried something new: a citizens assembly — a group of about a hundred randomly selected residents, chosen like a jury, brought together to tackle the property tax problem. Over the course of the assembly, they wrestle with whether to raise taxes, cut spending, find efficiencies, or combine approaches. The episode follows the professor who helped design the process, citizens whose views changed through participation, and a politician who agreed to carry their proposals to the state legislature.