Governor Kasich’s plan for Ohio’s prosperity: Booze. Lots of Booze.

"Last week, I mentioned that Kasich both said we can’t tax or cut our way to prosperity, which begged the question: what is then Kasich’s plan to develop more prosperity to all of Ohio?

Well, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Governor Kasich is expected to announce tomorrow that Ohio’s path to prosperity is to booze it up. According to today’s Dayton Daily News, Kasich’s budget will essentially earmark profits from liquor sales for the State to fund RobsOhio."



http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/03/14/governor-kasichs-plan-for-ohios-prosperity-booze-lots-of-booze/













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Keeping the people drunk and sedated is one way to keep them in line.

So expensive, that air force ground crews resorted to drinking the alcohol hydraulic fluid out of Mig-25s.

http://wiki.homedistiller.org/History_of_Vodka_in_Russia

Here's an interesting take-

During WWI, Tsarist Russia imposed a "dry law," which sought to keep army recruits sober enough to fight. And when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they extended prohibition on ideological grounds, arguing that the tsarist state sought to keep its subjects docile through liberal distribution of vodka. This may have had some truth to it since Catherine II once supposedly commented that a drunken people is easier to rule. Vladimir Lenin, a teetotaler, saw alcoholism as a disease that would keep Russia from moving forward to communism. Lenin said the proletariat, "had 'no need of intoxication,' it derived its 'strongest stimulant to struggle from its class position and from the communist ideal;' and what was needed was 'clarity, clarity and once again clarity.'" In 1922, at the 11th Communist Party Congress, Lenin would declare that there would be "no trade in rotgut."

Not sure where those ground crews were located, but could be they were in some really isolated area where vodka was hard to come by. If they were resorting to hydraulic fluid, I doubt it was due to taste.

He plans to sell the state liquor stores to his fat-cat repuke supporters.

I am not

He's proposing selling state assets, which will cut revenue streams from the state. It will be a short-term fix, but have long-term consequences.

A big component of the Kasich budget involves major cuts in state money to local governments. Let's see how that plays out. The ripple effect of the cuts will mean jobs getting cut or local governments asking for increases in regressive local sales and property taxes.

But Kasich doesn't care. He figures he's governor for a short term and he's planning to arrange things for his Wall Street buddies as fast as he can while the going's good.