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The Problem:
By any measure, Ted Strickland has been a disaster for Ohio’s budget. Because of his incompetence, mismanagement and wasteful spending, next year Ohio’s governor will face an estimated $8 billion deficit.
We Can Do Better:
Fortunately, John Kasich has experience in balancing budgets. As chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee, John led the effort to balance the federal budget for the first time since 1969. He and Lt. Governor candidate Mary Taylor, Ohio’s current Auditor of State, will draw on their fiscal experience to restore sound, responsible leadership in state government. To get Ohio’s budget in order, we must:
- Fix - don’t just postpone - the budget problem. We can’t afford to keep using budget and accounting gimmicks to kick our problems down the road as Ted Strickland has done.
- Take the politics out of budgeting. Every program and agency must go under the microscope. Special interests must stop saying how Ohio taxpayers’ money is spent.
- Reduce spending so we can start reducing taxes.
- Ensure that, if one-time funds are part of the budget, they are only used for one-times costs, not for recurring expenses, and certainly not to expand government.
- Find the most efficient way to perform government functions, leverage valuable assets, and have the courage to eliminate programs that are obsolete or ineffective.
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