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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio’s Governor Proposes $10,000 Tax Cut For Top 1% While Raising Taxes On Poor
Do they think people won't notice when they propose this?
Ohios Republican governor John Kasich (R-OH) has proposed a new tax plan that would radically restructure taxes in the state.
The plan would cut income taxes for most Ohioans, but increase extend sales taxes to additional goods which tend to fall on poor and working people. The result is, as Policy Matters Ohio and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found, that the rich would get a huge tax cut while the poorest Ohioans would actually face a tax increase.
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/ohios-governor-proposes-10000-tax-cut-for-top-1-while-raising-taxes-on-poor/
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Ohio’s Governor Proposes $10,000 Tax Cut For Top 1% While Raising Taxes On Poor (Original Post)
Report1212
Feb 2013
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. What do you expect from an idiot republican
Report1212
(661 posts)2. Is he an idiot?
Seems to be following his orders of backing the rich.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. In my opinion he is an idiot republican
or if you prefer he is a traitor to this country and the people of his state
indepat
(20,899 posts)4. This MFer, imo, is the same MFer he was when we lived in Ohio during most of
the '80s.
Report1212
(661 posts)5. I don't know much about his history
But he seems to have overreached on the anti union stuff, maybe the same way here.
indepat
(20,899 posts)8. He was then a Congressman of the Ryan-Cantor mold,
possibly just as or even more loathsome and despicable, imo, if possible.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)6. Not just a Republican....
Kasuck is a Koch Bros foot soldier... like Scott Walker, Rick Scott in Florida....
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)7. A Koch surrogate.