Plunderbund

You can tell it’s an election year because a bunch of Republican lawmakers are proposing tax cut legislation that they know will never get passed.
This time it’s a proposal to completely phase out Ohio’s income tax.
The stated goal of the income tax elimination is to “stem the state’s population decline and improve its economy”.
Silly Republicans. […]

Something got me thinking the other day on a long flight from the west coast back to our beloved Buckeye State. I was reading about the ongoing controversy about why Hillary Clinton will not release her tax returns. Something her opponent - and Plunderbund endorsed candidate - Barack Obama had already done. […]

Hilarious. Is that really what their image of a stereotypical “scary drug dealer”? That dude looks like Deputy Travis Junior from Reno 911! Be sure to read Ezra Klein’s take.

After meeting with his economic advisors today President Bush declared:
This economy of ours is on a solid foundation, but we can’t take economic growth for granted and there are signs that cause us to be ever more diligent to make sure that good policies come out of Washington
Yesterday he said he was thinking about some […]

A favorite date for conservatives is “Cost of Government Day”. Americans for Tax Reform - Grover Norquist’s baby - have put together a handy chart showing how the day has fluctuated over the last 30 years.

I’d like to point out something interesting. First, the two earliest days on the chart were both under […]

I have to be honest, I had tempered my expectations going in… and Strickland blew me out of the water. Belt-tightening in excess of Blackwell’s ridiculous spending cap nonsense, a freeze on college tuition, and a real focus on improving the lot of Ohioans living in the bottom half. In addition to killing […]

Andrew Sullivan reveals the rant of a reader - or at least someone motivated enough to email Sullivan - about S/Sgt Alva’s desire for homosexual soldiers to no longer have to remain in the closet (video). And remember, this attitude isn’t homophobia, according to anti-gay-right’s people.
What Staff Sgt. Eric Alva is saying that even […]

Governor Ted Strickland was in Washington yesterday for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association- where he helped push the Bush administration to provide more cash to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
George, of course, just wanted to talk about the war.
When asked about the cut in funding proposed by his recent […]

I tell ya, these guys are non-stop fun. In a post today complaining about the number of state employees making more than $100,000, which has risen 10 fold in the past decade (not adjusted for inflation, mind), they pointed out that universities weren’t included in the totals…
Just imagine if it included public universities.
Well, I […]

The latest round of Anti-abortion legislation passed by Ohio’s General Assembly will end up costing Ohio’s taxpayers billions of dollars.

I find it truly amazing that so many Republicans continue to push the party’s anti-abortion agenda even when it conflicts with the rest of their message.

What happened to fiscal responsibility, lowering the tax burden, and preserving […]