Speaking of Money.....

Republican candidate for Ohio Auditor, David "Big Spender" Yost, has a lot of people questioning his budget problems.  Although Yost claims to be a fiscal conservative, he isn't.  Citizens for Pepper has the details:

....compare the statement to Yost's own spending record.  He first came to the Delaware Prosecutor's office in February 2003; each year until 2010, he spent well more than the year before, usually with increases far greater than inflation:

2003: 53% increase 2004: 25% 2005: 7.6% 2006: 8.4% 2007: 7.7% 2008: 5% 2009: 2.6%

Overall, spending is up 150% from 2002 -- far outpacing both inflation and population growth in Delaware County....

That is very dramatic.  Yost certainly likes to spend that money.

David Pepper is the Democratic candidate for Ohio Auditor.  He has done a great job saving money in a county with a larger population than Yost's.  Check out David Pepper's graphs that compare their budgets at Pepper's Graphs.


**** Plunderbund wrote a post about some recent criticism by the NCSL leveled at Republican John Kasich's cockamamie plan to eliminate the state income tax.