When you look at the career of Republican John Kasich and the things he has advocated, you have to wonder if past behavior predicts future behavior.
Kasich wanted to cut programs for the poor so that the rich could get tax cuts.
Baltimore Sun (April 2, 1995):
House Budget Committee Chairman John R. Kasich, Republican of Ohio, will find himself in the middle of a bruising congressional battle later this week when the debate begins on legislation to slash the federal budget to pay for a massive tax cut....
...Mr. Kasich says he does not oppose social programs on their face, but because they so easily get out of control. He cites the example of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a cash assistance program for the low-income aged, the blind and those disabled more than a year....
If elected, would Kasich cut funding for libraries, schools, the poor, so that his rich pals can get tax breaks?
There is a little hint in this article that Democrats might want to use. Kasich said that he does not like to be "hassled." No one likes to be "hassled" in life, but it is something we put up with on occasion. Is Kasich a poor, rich man accustomed to getting his own way? Did he get his way when he got the state retirement funds to invest with Lehman Brothers? How many contacts did he make with the retirement boards until he got his way for them to put their investment money in Lehman's grubby hands?
In 1996, when Kasich and the House advocated cutting federally-sponsored student loans, stopping increases of the federal minimum wage, planned to make severe cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, there was major opposition. When Kasich and his committee members went to a college campus hoping to enlist college students in their efforts to cut all these federal programs, they were met by students who were shocked by these incredibly drastic plans.
Once again we see that Kasich seemed clueless at the repercussions of cutting all these programs. Today, as Kasich pushes for repeal of the state income tax which provides the state with 40% of its budget, he has refused to enumerate which programs he will cuts. We might need to push Kasich to get some answers.