Kasich Dropping Hints of His Cuts

Everyone in the state knows that Republican candidate for governor, John "Lehman Brothers" Kasich, wants to eliminate the state income tax. However, Kasich has refused to give specifics of what he'd cut when 46% of the state's money would disappear. At a recent speech in Brimfield, Ohio, that was a joint effort of the Portage Co. GOP and Portage Co. Tea Party, Kasich dropped some hints at what Ohioans would lose. This is what I've gleaned from the Recordpub.com article about Kasich's speech and visit:

(1) Ohio workers might lose some of the benefits from workers' compensation---
---"Kasich said Ohio needs to change its workers’ compensation program costs to business."
Isn't that just like a guy who just doesn't care about people but only about businesses?

(2) Ohioans would lose local control of schools--
----Kasich appears to suggest "merging districts or merging functions, such as transportation and purchasing, to save money."
School boards, teachers, parents, and students might not support this idea. Families move to a particular area (Dublin, Worthington, Bexley, etc.) because of the quality of the public schools. Would Kasich force districts to merge, thereby eliminate local decision-making, teaching positions, and student programs? Oh, that is right, Kasich is a big proponent of charter schools.

(3) Kasich seems to want to interfere in programs offered at colleges and universities in the state---
-----Kasich says that "....Colleges need to not duplicate programs..."
Here we have Kasich interfering in the programs/classes/degrees offered at various institutions of higher learning. What if a student cannot afford the program at the other college, are they just to give up on their goals? (I'm sure that Kasich's cold approach to the needs and desires of college students will not win him any votes with the 18 to 25 year old voting block.) Does that mean that college professors and instructors who are experts in a given field will lose jobs because their school no longer will teach that program/course of study?


This all seems very frightening to me. Kasich's cuts would be Draconian, and then he'd be off running for President again. Ohioans would be left with a major disaster. Kasich has been known as a person who always made cuts with a chainsaw instead of a surgical knife. In Congress, instead of fine tuning programs he wanted to eliminate, entire agencies and departments were on Kasich's chopping block. If Kasich wins as governor, we'd suffer the consequences for years to come.

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