The
Columbus Dispatch reports that the Legislative Service Commission estimates
that a 31 percent sales-tax increase or a 24 percent income-tax increase would
be needed to fund Stricklands the House Dem’s doughnut-hole education
plan:
“House Republicans released a report today
showing that when taking the amount of one-time funding in the proposed 2010-11
state budget and subtracting it from the Office of Budget and Management's
projected growth for 2012-13, the difference is $4.29 billion.
“Making up that much money in the next two-year
budget would require a 31 percent sales-tax increase or a 24 percent income-tax
increase, according to a report conducted by the Legislative Service Commission
at the request of House Republicans.”
Not that we shouldn’t constantly strive to improve Ohio’s education system, but shouldn’t there be some pride in the fact that a highly accredited education analysis group recently ranked Ohio’s education system “sixth-best education system in the nation,”
and that a recent study ranked Ohio as one of the top three states nationally to improve it funding disparities?
