Reaction to Governor’s Speech
The Akron Beacon Journal Here’s what some Ohioans said about Gov. Bob Taft’s policy statements in his State of the State address: Taft’s Ohio Partnership for Continued Learning task force is a “comprehensive and solid beginning for a K-16 education proposal,” inline with what Ohio educators have been advocating. His plan to prepare young people […]
Policy Could Raise Minimum Wage
The Lantern – Ohio State University by Brian Carro Former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards spoke in Columbus last Thursday to bolster support for an increase in the Ohio minimum wage. His visit to the King Arts Complex was the last of a four-state campaign by Edwards to promote the issue nationwide. According to […]
Multi-Billion Dollar, Tax-Exempt Clinic Donates $10 Million to Schools
Catalyst Cleveland The tax-exempt Cleveland Clinic has announced plans to donate $10 million in money and services to cash-strapped district schools over the next five years, effectively halting efforts by the county treasurer to get the $3.3 billion non-profit health system to make annual payments to schools in lieu of property taxes. Full Article
Taft Address a Prelude to Budget Brouhaha Over State Taxes, Spending; Consolidation Planned for Stat
Gongwer News Service Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland-based research group with a focus on issues affecting low- and middle-income citizens, released a study this week noting that a 22% across-the-board cut in the personal income tax would equate to $2 billion a year in lost revenue for the state. The group also said the effects […]
State income-tax cut would be expensive, unequal and siphon money out of Ohio
A 22 percent reduction in Ohio’s state income tax would cost the state more than $2 billion in annual revenue and would go overwhelmingly to the state’s most affluent taxpayers. Roughly one in seven of the dollars that the state government would no longer collect would wind up not with Ohio taxpayers but in additional […]
Facts, Fairness Must Drive Tax Reform
The Dayton Daily News Ohio house speaker Jon Husted was on the money when he identified tax reform as vital to the state’s future. The “time is now,” he recently told the Dayton Daily News editorial board. …
Legislators, Taft Look at Tax Plan for Business
Gross receipts concept would shift the burden The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS – Republican legislators and Gov. Bob Taft are examining a proposal to create a new business tax that supporters say would let Ohio eliminate the corporate franchise and tangible personal property taxes. Full Article
Ohio CEO’s Take Lead in Tax Rewrite
Added penny sales tax likely to be extended Dayton Daily News Gov. Bob Taft and Republican legislative leaders have a publicly silent, but influential, partner in their campaign to overhaul the state’s tax code to boost Ohio’s economy. The Ohio Business Roundtable, an independent, nonpartisan group made up of chief executive officers from about 80 […]
Foreclosure Sales Double in County
Officials, study cite predatory lending as the chief culpritBy Joshua Greene Cleveland Free Times JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER Monday, at the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Foreclosure Sale on January 10, 50 homes changed hands. The room was packed with vultures, the speculators, redevelopers, bankers and small-time investors. “I don’t think there’s this many people at a […]
New Point Man for Governor
Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson to play major role in pursuing tax-reform initiatives The Akron Beacon Journal COLUMBUS – The room was packed. Every seat and spot for standing was taken. Along the balcony, men and women leaned over the rails to peer down on Gov. Bob Taft ashe beamed and administered the oath of office to […]
Cutting Ohio Top Income-Tax Rates Would Be Costly, Favor a Few
A move to cut state income-tax rates on the most affluent would cost Ohio hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and tilt the state and local tax system further against lower- and middle-income taxpayers. Those are the key conclusions of a review released today by Policy Matters Ohio, based on calculations made by the […]
Economy, Bad Budget Produce Setbacks
The sheriff’s civil division has piles of papers awaiting service. Youngstown Vindicator WARREN Two bad economies have joined forces to put several hundred financial transactions on hold in Trumbull County. Economic realities of the Mahoning Valley, coupled with the county sheriff’s department’s own budget issues, have resulted in an eightmonth backlog for sheriff’s sales, or […]