But We Balanced the Budget

Q. How does the Ohio state legislature hope to do this while cutting taxes for the wealthy?

A. By increasing taxes on the working poor via a regressive increased sales and a regressive potential flat tax of 3.5%.
A. By reducing spending on services. Try getting help from an under staffed and over worked income tax department.
A. By reducing income tax sharing with local governments 40% since 2008. One result is the deteriorating infrastructure like city streets.
A. Increasing property taxes for all residential property owners by12.5% and some senior citizen property taxes by an added 25%.                                    
A. Planed action such as this:

Ohio Senate’s budget plan may leave kids vulnerable, advocates say. Some of Ohio’s most vulnerable children could be forced to get by with less help from the state, even though Ohio already ranks dead last in child-protection funding. County children services agencies will lose $17 million over the biennium following the state’s elimination of reimbursements for tangible personal property-tax revenue. In addition, the Senate version of the upcoming two-year state budget slashes $600,000 in state aid for child-protection services from the House-passed plan.

Ah, the beauty of a single party government, led by a house speaker that owes little to his apathetic constituency. No checks no balance

Paul Hunter