Husted’s rough week …
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted begin his tenure in fairly bipartisan fashion? Didn’t he initially stand up to Gov. John Kasich and some of the more right-wing policies of the Ohio GOP? Somewhere along the way Husted made a course correction and became Ohio’s Secretary of Suppression. His policies have led to court battles which have led to Husted looking like every other partisan for partisan’s sake winger out there polluting our state and national political processes. Last night, Hannah News Service even had to roll out the white text on red background. There’s Breaking News. Husted has been whupped in court again and he and the Ballot Board are going to meet this morning to rewrite the ballot text for State Issue 2. I asked Dale Butland, IO’s communications director and longtime Cap Square observer for his thoughts: “The same desperate politicians who are doing everything they can to eliminate the votes of those they fear might not support them are now lying to voters about the Issue 2 reforms. This is what you expect to see in a banana republic, not a great state like Ohio. It’s gotten so bad that a federal judge and the Ohio Supreme Court have been forced to step in and slap these politicians down. Voters can stand up for honesty and fair play by voting “yes” on Issue 2 this November,” Butland told me. We’ll have some coverage at the Ballot Board this morning and hopefully get a post up from one of our policy folks later today. What Dale told me, though, is key. Issue 2 is important. It’s proscription for fixing Ohio’s redistricting process may seem a bit complicated, but an attempt is being made to bring fairness into the process. Voter advocates aren’t asking for a process that favors either party, they’re looking for congressional and statehouse districts that reflect Ohio, not a Kasich-Boehner fantasy of Ohio.
The Romney – Ryan Vision
[Video] Tom Perriello talks about who wins and loses under Romney Economics
Recap: IO-CAP Report Shows Romney Economics Won’t Go Down Easy at Ohio’s Kitchen Tables
Innovation Ohio and the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a report today, The Real Cost of the Romney-Ryan Plan to Ohioans. If you’re a member of the middle class or struggling to get by in today’s economy, you might want to read it. Tom Perriello, president of CAP Action, gave a presentation today in downtown Columbus where he drew a distinction between the kitchen table and the king’s table. The kitchen table is one of the regular places that working people and families sit down to figure out how to navigate today’s economy. They talk about paying for extra fees for sports at school, health care costs, their home values and how to pay for tuition at a university or community college. They make decisions about what they can and cannot afford. They pay their taxes and what they want in return is for government to keep its promises on Social Security and Medicare and for federal and state officials to invest in the things that make Ohio and the nation stronger. At the king’s table sit the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to buy this year’s election. Their proxy and humble servant is Mitt Romney. When he can get away with it, he’s evasive about his plans for the nation’s economy. He ought to be. His plan calls for massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans while the middle class picks up the tab. Here are a few of the kitchen table issues our latest report documents from Romney’s plan:
- Middle-class Ohioans would pay more in taxes while millionaires pay less. Millionaires in the state would receive an additional $87,000 in tax breaks under the tax plans of Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan while middle-class families would pay $1,900 more in health care taxes and $1,066 more in taxes on their mortgages.
- Jobs would decline across Ohio. Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan plan to provide extra tax incentives for corporations to outsource jobs and are pushing policy proposals to cripple the clean energy industry, jeopardizing 125,000 jobs across the state.
- Drastic cuts to federal spending would shrink Ohio’s middle class. The state stands to lose more than $106 billion in federal funding from 2013 through 2022, an average of more than $10 billion a year, from cuts to schools, law enforcement, highway repairs, job-training programs and more. These cuts would fall predominantly on middle-class and low-income families, especially cuts to education programs that would result in nearly $100 million in reduced federal support for education in the state in 2013 and 2014 alone.
- Seniors in Ohio would lose health care benefits and pay more. Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan would force seniors in the state to pay at least $660 more for their prescription drugs each year. At the same time, the Romney-Ryan plan to turn Medicare into a voucher would cost current seniors at least $11,000 more out of pocket.
- Women in Ohio would pay more for health care but receive less bang for their buck. Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan would once again allow insurance companies to charge women more than men while taking away preventive care from at least 1.9 million women in the state.
- Young adults in Ohio would lose access to their families’ health insurance. Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan promise to dismantle Obamacare, which would directly result in 97,000 young adults in Ohio losing the insurance they have today due to the Affordable Care Act.
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IO-CAP study says Ohio would lose $106 Billion and middle class would pay higher taxes
Columbus–A new collaborative analysis by Innovation Ohio and the Center for American Progress Action Fund has found that Ohio and its middle income taxpayers would be hit hard under the economic plan put forward by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. IO and CAP Action are progressive think tanks. IO is headquartered in Columbus, while CAP Action is based in Washington, D.C. The study, “The Real Cost of the Romney-Ryan Plan to Ohioans”, is the second project undertaken jointly by the two organizations. The full report is available at innovationohio.org. Among the study’s main findings are:- Under the Romney tax plan, Ohio’s 5,800 millionaires would receive an additional tax cut of at least $87,000, while middle class Ohio families would pay $1,900 more in health care taxes and $1,066 more in taxes on their home mortgages.
- Under the Romney budget plan, Ohio would lose over $106 billion in federal funding from 2013-2022, or an average of more than $10 billion per year. Programs that would be subjected to huge cuts include health care, law enforcement, highway repair, job-training and, especially, education —which would suffer cuts of nearly $100 million in 2013 and 2014 alone. Ohio college students would lose 5,390 work-study positions, and Ohio’s 363,000 Pell Grant recipients would have their awards cut by $830 per year.
- Under the Romney energy plan, investment in green energy technologies like wind and solar would be slashed, jeopardizing 125,000 Ohio clean energy jobs, including the 6,000 jobs that currently exist in wind energy.
- Under the Romney health care plan, 70,000 Ohio seniors would pay at least $660 more per year for their prescription drugs due to a re-opening of the Medicare “donut hole”, while the 97,000 young Ohio adults now covered under their parents’ health care policies would lose insurance. Insurance companies could go back to charging women more than men for the same policies, and nearly 2 million Ohio women would lose the no-cost preventive care and disease screenings they currently have.
- Under the Romney plan to “voucherize” Medicare by 2023, health care costs for current Medicare recipients aged 65 and over would increase by $11,000 per year. Costs would be even greater for future retirees.
Middle Class Scorecard – Ohio House of Representatives
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