In 1995, John Kasich and Sen. Pete Domenici, tried to cut federal spending to give promised tax cuts. Both men proposed drastic federal cuts, but Kasich's plan included severe, even cruel cuts to federal programs.
New York Times (May 16, 1995):
...Representative John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, and Senator Pete Domenici, his Senate counterpart, have proposed cutting domestic discretionary spending by 30 percent to balance the budget by 2002. But Mr. Kasich needs to find far more savings than Mr. Domenici, whose plan does not include tax cuts that are heavily weighted toward upper-income families.
Budget experts are still puzzling over Mr. Kasich's numbers. But it is already obvious that Mr. Kasich would cut much more than Mr. Domenici from entitlements such as Medicare, Medicaid and welfare programs. To help offset tax cuts that would reach $90 billion annually in the year 2002, Mr. Kasich would chop Medicare by $25 billion more than Mr. Domenici in that year, Medicaid by $4 billion more, welfare and other programs for the unemployed and low-income families by perhaps $8 billion more....
....Even Mr. Domenici's relatively cautious budget would impose gargantuan cuts on Medicare (15 percent), Medicaid (30 percent) and domestic discretionary spending (30 percent). Mr. Kasich would pile on steeper cuts on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare to pay for tax cuts that enrich corporations and wealthy families......
Those people who think that a "Governor" Kasich would help the middle class, are wrong. Kasich has demonstrated time and time again that he'd rather make cuts to programs that hurt the middle class, the elderly, the poor, and even school children, to "...enrich corporations and wealthy families...."
*** Kasich's big deal press conference today was sort of silly. He had a prop of books piled on one another but they were books of the Ohio Administrative Code---not business regulations (see Plunderbund for details). From everything I've read, Kasich first criticized Gov. Strickland, and then proposed business friendly initiatives that have already been used and enforced by Strickland.
