ThinkProgress says it best:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) campaigned on the promise of “a new way and a new day” for all Ohioans. Within 177 of those “new days,” Kasich has demolished worker’s rights, slashed children’s health, kneecapped the middle class, insulted African-Americans, and even eliminated jobs he promised to create — all while expanding tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Such a hefty agenda certainly requires a “new way” of governing. Namely, a complete dismissal of his consistuents. In 177 days, Kasich’s approval ratings have plummeted, and it’s not difficult to see why. After all, Kasich signed Ohio’s last four major bills into law despite the decided objection of Ohio voters, starting with limits on public workers:
– Senate Bill 5: Over the protests and tears of over 70,000 of Ohio teachers, nurses, police, and firefighters, Kasich signed Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 into law in March. The bill eviscerates public workers’ right to collectively bargain and fully bans their right to strike. According to a poll taken before he signed the law, 65 percent of voters thought employees should maintain the same rights, and 54 percent said they’d repeal the bill in an election. Because of this bill, 55 percent said they’d now vote for former Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who lost to Kasich in 2010 by just over 5 percent of the vote.....
.....On CBS’s Face The Nation this Sunday, Kasich again refused to consider his disapproval among Ohioans, dimissing it as “too much posturing” and “too much thinking about yourself.” “At the end of the day, you look at yourself in the mirror, and you say to yourself, ‘Did I do what was right for families and for children?’,” he said. “And if I paid a political price, so what?“
What families and children does he think he is helping? Middle class families are not being helped by anything that Kasich and the Republicans have passed. The fact that he says that he isn't worried by any political fallout, shows you his callous, uncaring, lack of interest in the real people of Ohio.
Even if that wasn't enough to convince you that Kasich has the wrong priorities, here is another cockamamie idea from Kasich---- tax breaks for banks.
Dispatch:
John Kasich used to be a banker. Now, Ohio's Republican governor is studying a possible tax cut for the state's financial institutions.
Banks, savings and loans and most other Ohio financial institutions still pay a corporate franchise tax, a 13-mill tax based on net worth. Kasich, a former executive at Lehman Brothers, suggested yesterday that altering the tax could reduce costs for banks and generate more loans.
"I mean, taxing people on the basis of net worth instead of net income is something that's not all that appealing to me," Kasich told about 300 bank executives at the Ohio Bankers' Day Conference at the Crowne Plaza Columbus North......
Kasich is completely out of line. Bankers do not need any help because they are still making record profits.
