Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz joined a Democratic chorus yesterday attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich's goal of phasing out the state's income tax....
... "Given the cuts that we have already made, the impact that Congressman Kasich's reckless tax plan would have on our community would be disastrous," Mr. Kapszukiewicz said during a news conference in the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.
Kasich's plan to abolish the state income tax seems to have less, and less support.
In 1995, then Congressman John Kasich suggested a budget plan that would make major cuts.
Bobpark.physics.umd: (May 12, 1995)
....The Kasich plan in the House has far more detail than the plan Domenici presented to the Senate; it is also necessarily more radical, since it includes a tax cut as promised in the Contract. But taxes aside, the two plans share a common outlook: privatize it where you can, devolve it to the states where you can't, and if you can't do either, abolish it....
- EDUCATION: The Kasich plan calls for abolishing the Department of Education and "returning education to the state and local level." What will become of the essential pieces? Well, maybe there won't be any; more than 150 programs would be terminated.
- OTA: Both plans eliminate the Office of Technology Assessment.....
Are Kasich's past plans an indication of what he'd do if elected Ohio governor?
* The Hill has information from a "912 Project" (that idea pushed by loon Beck) questionnaire about Republican Steve Stivers:
...(Stivers) ...also advocates for taking away the voter’s right to elect a U.S. senator and returning that power to state legislatures. Stivers acknowledged that repealing the 17th Amendment isn’t really a priority right now, but he said he sympathizes with its federalist underpinnings....
....During the course of the seven-page survey, Stivers also “disagrees” with the statement that global warming is a scientific fact and that catastrophe will ensue if carbon emissions aren’t lowered. In addition, he suggests that any of the federal departments not mandated under the Constitution — everything except State, Defense, Justice and Treasury — could be eliminated to return to a “constitutionally pure government.”...
Stivers sounds like a right wing radical. His ideas about global warming and eliminating certain parts of the government are very frightening plans. I'm sure that many people in central Ohio, especially students in the Ohio State campus area, would not vote for such a far right candidate.