...Brennan enrolls nearly 10,000 Ohio children in his 31 schools, including an online school. Together, they are on track to receive at least $74 million in tax money this school year, according to state records.....
$74,000,000! He gets that money despite the fact that a majority of the schools that he owns perform below the averages for public schools.
>>>Ohio Gov. John Kasich needs to get his facts straight. Once again, Kasich has been using inaccurate, out-of-date, statistics in describing Ohio's taxes. PolitiFact has the details:
"If we don’t lower our taxes, we’re not competitive," Kasich told a GOP-friendly crowd inside a local ice cream parlor. "We’re the seventh highest taxed state in America. And that’s not just state, it’s local as well."
....A more recent Feb. 23, 2011 report from the group, entitled Special Report #189, ranks Ohio 18th in tax burden among the 50 states and suggests Ohio hasn’t been as high as seventh in tax burden since 2005. So why did a Jan. 2010 report from the group say Ohio was currently seventh?
....Kasich said Ohio had the seventh highest state and local tax burden in the country, relying on a study of the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation study. However, that figure was for 2005 and the study has been updated with the most recent set of rankings showing the state to have the 18th highest state and local tax burden.....
PolitiFact has rated Kasich's claim that Ohio has the 7th highest tax burden as "False" in their article dated today, June 6, 2011.
Ohioans have to remember that Kasich is using out of date information to try to get things his way. We all know that the last thing we need is a state that fits Kasich's goals of anti-public school, low taxes for corporations and millionaires, higher taxes for the middle class, no safety net for the poor/elderly/sick, natural resources and state assets that are controlled by corporations, less regulations regarding environmental protections, and a state that is anti-firefighter, anti-police officer, anti-nurses, and anti-minimum wage.