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News: Internet Sales Tax Back on the Table, Cincinnati Enquirer
Notes: Ohioans are required to pay sales tax on items purchased online. Over 99% of Ohioans fail to pay the sales tax required. With in-state purchases, the retailer collects the sales tax on our behalf, and many people wonder why corporations like Amazon do not do the same thing. As more people switch to online retail, Ohio’s sales tax revenue will continue to decrease. The results will be: 1) Raise the sales tax for items purchased in stores 2) cut public services or 3) a combination of the two. In Ohio, we have seen a combination of the two over the past few years. Ohio should continue to look at ways to modernize our revenue system and restore cuts made to community services like schools and public safety. Ohio should not use new revenue for income tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest Ohioans.
News: Ohio is Going in the Right Direction, Youngstown Vindicator
Notes: Do you agree or not? Governor Kasich makes a pitch that cutting taxes has moved Ohio in the right direction. While trumpeting Lake Erie, Ohio schools, colleges, and neighborhoods, he advocates for more income tax cuts. Ohio cut the income tax by 21% in 2005, and another 10% in 2013. We have tried this strategy, and it has failed for Ohioans. These tax cuts have not stimulated the economy – leaving Ohio with a higher unemployment rate and a slower job growth than other states. Income tax cuts have forced cuts to the programs that the Governor trumpets as successful, and shifted the tax responsibility away from the wealthiest Ohioans and onto the rest of us.
