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McEwen will go down again if he tries, and make no friends in the effort. Jean is no RINO, and this tax hiking BS just is lame as it gets. Is just the same as the Dems discovering that they were against the war all along despite their votes and what they said. If you want the Legislature not to hike taxes each time we have a recession, then amend the Ohio Constitution to allow us to run a Deficit when the economy has had X number of negative quarters or something like that. Otherwise, Ohio will raise stupidly raise taxes every time there is a recession and then the only question is how this will be done.

Taft proposed a raft of tax hikes on services that would be impossible to roll back, and that is his shame and the reason thinking folks can never forgive him. Jean did the responsible thing, as well as many others in the Ohio Legislature in the situation, put the tax where it can be easily removed when the economy improves. This tax has already been partly rolled back already. Ultimately this is the only way until a better formula is found.

You are just knee jerk upset that folks can and have to act responsibly once in a while and thats just too sad. It would be a whole lot more productive if you used your energy to do something like help change the Ohio Supreme Court composition so that we don't have the court driving education costs up in bizarre ways. Make a positive difference and let go of hating Jean, its just a waste of time.

If she up and does something that helps the other side.. well then her hold on the 2nd will dissappear like the morning dew, but this isn't the case. She is definitely on the side of the angels right now and not one of the squishy RINOs in the house. SO GET OVER IT!

Jean is no RINO, and this tax hiking BS just is lame as it gets.

Actually it's part of the public record. Follow along:

-- Jean Schmidt voted to raise Ohio's Sales Tax by 20%. Ken Blackwell opposed it. This vote allowed her to raise Ohio's budget by over 10%. They could have left out the tax increase, and still had more money to spend than they did in the prior budget cycle.

-- Schmidt voted to raise Ohio's Gas Tax by 6 cents/gallon. She and Bob Taft must think gas prices are too low.

-- Schmidt sponsored legislation which led to taxes being raised in Hamilton County and Cincinnati.

That's the Jean Schmidt tax record for you. We cannot condemn liberals like Hillary Clinton for their tax and spend policies, then defend RINO's like Jean Schmidt who do the same thing. These tax hikers in both parties need to be defeated.