Here is what the right wing, conservative, Dispatch said about this proposal to eliminate the state income tax:
...Perhaps Adams and other would-be income-tax radicals mean to make up the difference with sales taxes or something else. In that case, they should be forthcoming with that little detail.
Adams' pitch is simple and not without some truth: Lower income taxes would encourage economic development and might persuade more people to stay in the state and be more productive.
But that leaves out the inescapable reality that the state has a large budget that won't be cut without tremendous political and social pain.
John Kasich was best friends with George W. Bush and we know exactly what the Bush financial policies did to our nation, our jobs, our banking system, stock market, and standing in the world. Is Kasich willing to gamble the future of every man, woman, and child in the state because of his cockamamie idea to end the state income tax? Where would he get the money to run the state? What departments of the Ohio government would be eliminated? How many current state employees would lose their jobs? Would he end public education?
Kasich and his Lehman Brothers employment may have influenced his judgment. Ohioans don't want our state to end up like Lehman Brothers. Kasich needs to start answering questions and stop talking about Ronald Reagan like he was deity. I remember the Reagan years, and trust me, it was no picnic.