The News-Messenger:
Any attempt to understand Ohio's budget begins with a puzzling mathematical question: How do you subtract nearly $8 billion but end up $5 billion higher?
....Although Kasich's proposed budget and the House and Senate versions of it comprise hundreds of pages filled with tens of thousands of statistics, the overview of the state's fiscal road map for the next two years focuses on several major issues:
» What is the source of the nearly $8 billion budget gap and how was it filled?
» How did the current $50.7 billion general revenue fund budget grow to $55.6 billion, a figure that could rise slightly by the time the legislature approves it?
» And if there is more spending, where's it going?
What can you expect from a governor that worked on Wall Street? Plunderbund was on this Kasich math problem last month and it had to do with staff salaries.
Plunderbund:
Even in February, Plunderbund demonstrated that Kasich's math on SB 5 is "...junk science and faulty math..." (See Plunderbund's analysis of SB 5.)
Is it possible that people in this Republican administration have been reading and memorizing passages of the book, How to Lie With Statistics, in order to come up with their completely inaccurate, unbalanced budget? I'm just wondering why it took state legislators so long to figure out that the Kasich budget doesn't add up. Will Republicans vote to pass it anyway, even if they know that it is flawed, erroneous, and deceptive?