A New Kind of Policy Think Tank
by editor
For Immediate Release
April 4, 2011
Contact: Dale Butland
614- 783-5833
Columbus — Innovation Ohio, a progressive think tank headquartered in Columbus, today kicks off a new feature: the “Taxpayer Rip-Off of the Week Award.”
Awardees will be carefully selected from budget or other public policy proposals advanced by the Kasich Administration, the General Assembly or others that would cause harm to Ohio taxpayers and consumers. Special consideration will be given to proposals that reward the wealthy by sticking it to the middle class.
And now, with no further ado, the first Taxpayer Rip-Off Award winner is… drum roll, please…
SLASHING THE OFFICE OF CONSUMERS’ COUNSEL BUDGET BY OVER 50%
Against stiff competition, this Kasich Administration budget proposal wins for the following reasons:
IO Communication Director Dale Butland offered his congratulations:
“If what they’ve done to the Office of Consumers’ Counsel is any indication of what to expect in the future, the Kasich Administration will be hard to beat when it comes to ripping off taxpayers and the middle class. After all, hammering consumers, enriching utility companies, and making it even more difficult to attract new businesses to our state—all while not reducing Ohio’s $8 billion budget deficit by a single dime—is a very tough act to follow.”
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