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Ohio Budget

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Gov. Kasich Proposes Income Tax, Sales Tax Cuts in Budget Plan

Check out this video from the governor’s office to learn more about the proposal

  Gov. John Kasich wants to cut income taxes for small businesses and individuals and lower the sales tax in Ohio’s 2014-2015 budget. “Ohio’s taxes are too high,” Kasich said in a video posted to his website. “They hold back job creators and hold back our economy. We need to fix that.” The Columbus Dispatch reports that while the sales tax would decrease from 5.5 percent to 5 percent under the plan, more services would be subject to the tax. Increasing what can be taxed would allow the government to actually bring in more money over time.  The Plain Dealer reports that this proposal includes the first tax rewrite since 2005.  Kasich’s education funding reform plan, which he introduced last week, plays a big part in his budget proposal. …

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Ohio Budget That Slashes Education Funding Gets Senate OK; Raises Old Questions About DeRolph Lawsuit

Does DeRolph matter anymore? What effect will the lawsuit have on school funding in the future?

Because Ohio's fiscal situation remains precarious and because the party in power remains dedicated to cutting the budget in any economy, the pressure on school funding will continue for the foreseeable future.  Local school officials will continue to be pressured to cut positions and programs and occasionally ask for levy increases. It's not surprising that in this kind of political climate, questions about the actual legal state of school funding in Ohio come up.  People ask: “Wasn't that lawsuit all about making sure districts had enough money?” and “Didn't the Supreme Court decide that these local levies were unconstitutional?” and “Can't we go back to the court and get them to make the state give us enough money?” Simply put, the …

Thomas J. Coyne, Ph.D.

3:36 pm on Thursday, June 9, 2011

"Old Questions about the DeRolph lawsuit," you say? What questions? Name one? There are no questions with respect to the unconstitutional declaration to which you refer, an unconstitutional decision declared by our Stpreme Court and ignored by our a government thereby revealing shocking disrespect for the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, a desrespect supported throughout the State of Ohio by …   more ›

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