With great Pork should come great transparency

By MOVCAC | 07/01/2015

By Maggie Thurber For Ohio Watchdog The Boys & Girls Club of Massillon will reap $100,000. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio shall receive $1 million. Legislators call them earmarks, but taxpayers prefer to call them pork — and Ohio’s budget for the next two years contains millions of dollars for them. Oink. Oink.…

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Ohio budget proposal includes new taxes on Social Security benefits

By MOVCAC | 02/06/2015

By Rich Exner, Northeast Ohio Media Group Governor’s Ohio budget proposal includes an additional $166.5 million a year from seniors in new taxes on Social Security benefits. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget calls for slashing state income tax rates for everyone, and ditching the tax completely for nearly all self-employed people on the money they…

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GOP Establishment: Faking Right, Funding Left

By MOVCAC | 02/02/2015

THE NEW AMERICAN – Written by William F. Jasper Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a long record as a Big Government, “progressive” Republican, but in Tennessee it still pays for campaigning politicians to pretend to be politically conservative. On The New American’s rating of Congressional votes, The Freedom Index, Sen. Alexander has compiled an anemic cumulative…

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