Budget Brief – May 2 Update on House Changes to Governor’s Budget

The Unbalanced Approach to Budgeting:
House of Representatives’ Changes to SFY 2012­13 Proposed Budget

The amended substitute House Bill 153, Ohio’s biennial budget proposal for fiscal years 2012
and 2013, emerged at the Ohio House of Representatives Finance and Appropriations Committee
Thursday afternoon with small changes in programmatic funding, but no change in an approach
that only looks at spending cuts and ignores the revenue side of the ledger. In fact, a proposal is
added to further cut resources through elimination of the estate tax, which would cut $231 million
more at the local level in 2013. This harsh plan will hurt the young, the poor, the elderly and the
ill, and it will hurt Ohio’s economy. …

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