State of Ohio Archives: on Tax Reform

JD Vance: Tax "social justice" nonprofits, pay down their endowments

Bernie Moreno: People should keep more of their hard-earned money

Jane Timken: Taxes would stifle economy, destroy jobs, harm families

Jane Timken: Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge opposing tax increases

Jim Renacci: Trump tax cuts enable companies to invest in innovation

Sherrod Brown (D): No. "Outrageous that Senators . would try to take health care away from working families . to cut taxes on corporations that send jobs overseas."

Jim Renacci (R): Yes. They enable Ohio companies "to invest in workers, innovation, & future generations."

Mike DeWine: Supports Trump tax cuts; exempt capital gains taxes

Richard Cordray (D): No. A "terrible deal" that helps the wealthy. No current plan to increase OH taxes, but shift some allocations.

Mike DeWine (R): Supports Trump tax cuts. No tax increases for OH. Exempt capital gains taxes for investment in economically distressed communities.

Richard Cordray: Trump tax cuts were a terrible deal that helps the wealthy

Richard Cordray (D): No. A "terrible deal" that helps the wealthy. No current plan to increase OH taxes, but shift some allocations.

Mike DeWine (R): Supports Trump tax cuts. No tax increases for OH. Exempt capital gains taxes for investment in economically distressed communities.

Sherrod Brown: Trump tax cuts apply to corporations that send jobs overseas

Sherrod Brown (D): No. "Outrageous that Senators . would try to take health care away from working families . to cut taxes on corporations that send jobs overseas."

Jim Renacci (R): Yes. They enable Ohio companies "to invest in workers, innovation, & future generations."

Sherrod Brown: Help working families instead of millionaires & corporations

While the typical pharmacy worker or restaurant cook or cashier or janitor in Ohio will see an average tax cut of just $33 a month, someone making more than $830,000 a year will rake in $5,100 every single month in tax cuts. And the bill actually created a new set of incentives to reward corporations that outsource jobs.

We were promised that the corporate tax cuts would end up in workers' pockets in the form of higher wages. Instead, corporations have used their tax cut to buy back more than $700 billion of their own stock since the law passed. Stock buybacks don't support workers--they are a financial sleight of hand to boost shareholder profits and CEO bonuses.

Mike Gibbons: Opposes higher taxes on the wealthy

A: Strongly oppose

Richard Cordray: Does not back tax bill; not enough benefit to middle class

Mike Gibbons: Cut taxes, flatten tax rates

• Reduce taxes and have a simpler, flatter tax code;
• Eliminate the loopholes that only benefit the well-connected special interests;
• Create a tax credit for every job that a business adds;
• Reduce the regulatory bureaucracy that makes it expensive for businesses to create jobs.

Joe Schiavoni: End tax cuts for rich to support schools

Nan Whaley: Shift tax burden to rich

Jim Renacci: Our tax code is broken; comprehensive reform needed

As a Certified Public Accountant and former business owner for nearly 30 years, I can attest that our tax code is broken. It is too complex, contains too many loopholes, and serves as a barrier to job growth. I have advocated for a simpler tax code that will encourage our small businesses to hire and expand, while also providing relief to individuals and families who continue to grapple with the complexities of our current system.

Comprehensive tax reform will lead to the creation of thousands of new jobs and a healthy economy. It's time for a fairer, flatter tax code that is more transparent and accountable to the taxpayer.

Mary Taylor: Reduce personal income tax; eliminate franchise tax

Taylor began her career in 1990 with a national accounting firms. She served as director of another firm's tax department and senior manager of the employee benefits practice.

John Kasich: $3 billion in tax cuts for job creators

[My budget represents] the ideas that are producing the economic growth which is making so many of the other good things possible. These accomplishments are sending a message to job creators around the state, around the country, and around the globe that Ohio is open for business. When I tell them that we were $8 billion in the hole and now we're $2 billion in the black, that we've got $3 billion worth of tax cuts, that we've got a private sector entity that can respond to them quickly--it's hard for them to believe. But we've been able to keep growth in check so that there's money to give back to Ohioans in the form of a $500 million tax cut because we have restrained ourselves.

Josh Mandel: I'm proud to pledge for lower taxes

"I'm proud to stand up for lower taxes," Mandel said, adding that he would do anything to "lower taxes across the board for the middle class and for job creators."

Sherrod Brown: Anti-tax pledges handcuff budget decisions

"I'm proud to stand up for lower taxes," Mandel said, adding that he would do anything to "lower taxes across the board for the middle class and for job creators."

Josh Mandel: Eliminate the death tax; it's an unjust double taxation

Mandel's priorities were a threat to the middle class, a Sherrod Brown spokesman said, citing the candidate's failure to support the auto bailout, which the Brown campaign said saved 850,000 Ohio jobs.

Michael Pryce: Consumption tax gets government off our backs

John Kasich: Lower taxes to create competitive climate

To succeed we must lower taxes--Create a tax climate that allows Ohio to compete with other states to attract new businesses, foster job creation, and keep our precious, existing jobs here

Lee Fisher: Let Bush tax cuts expire for millionaires

"Let's focus first on what policies got us into this recession," said Fisher, "because we can't afford to go back to the same people and the same policies that dug us the deepest economic ditch in most of our lifetimes."

Portman painted Fisher as the status quo responsible for the economic woes.

Rob Portman: Any tax increase would hurt the fragile economy

"Let's focus first on what policies got us into this recession," said Fisher."

On taxes, Fisher supports extending tax cuts for the middle class but letting them expire for millionaires and billionaires. Portman contends that any tax increase would hurt the fragile economy.

Lee Fisher: 2005 tax cut reduced Ohio taxes by 16.8%

Fisher said Portman has backed trade policies that have sent Ohio jobs overseas. He repeatedly sought to tie Portman to economic policies of former President George W. Bush, in whose administration Portman served as trade representative.

Portman said Fisher's proposals would mean job-killing higher taxes. "You can't continue to raise taxes," he said.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland implemented a tax cut in 2005 that resulted in state income taxes that are 16.8 percent less than they were in 2004, said a spokeswoman for Fisher, Ohio's lieutenant governor [under Strickland].

Lee Fisher: Let tax cuts on wealthy expire, to pay for health reform

It would of course be naive to think that reform has no cost. We must look at a wide variety of other mechanisms to provide the funds needed for reform. For example:

• Allowing tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans making more than $250,000 a year.
• Implementing electronic medical records to save costs in administrative overhead and cut down on costly errors.
• Cracking down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud
• Improving preventive care to reduce costly procedures and medical emergencies.
• Providing doctors and patients with the latest medical research they need to prescribe the most effective treatments.
• Reforming payment systems for Medicare and other private insurance providers.

Mike DeWine: Some ads had mistakes, but say Brown votes against tax cuts

BROWN: Mike, you know better than that, too. His whole ad campaign is fabricated on making up stuff about taxes.

DeWINE: My ad campaign is based on votes that you cast. You just want to run from your record.

BROWN: Mike ran an ad of the World Trade Center on fire. The problem is, he doctored the ad.

DeWINE: Have you ever denied the facts in that ad? I said there was a mistake made in the picture, but there was no mistake in the facts.

BROWN: He didn’t fire the ad agency.

Q: Was there any factual mistake?

BROWN: Well, other than doctoring a photo?

Q: Well, you made that point.

BROWN: That’s a pretty important point.

DeWINE: He won’t answer the question. The facts are correct.

Sherrod Brown: DeWine’s ads doctor WTC photos to distort my record on taxes

BROWN: Mike, you know better than that, too. His whole ad campaign is fabricated on making up stuff about taxes.

DeWINE: My ad campaign is based on votes that you cast. You just want to run from your record.

BROWN: Mike ran an ad of the World Trade Center on fire. The problem is, he doctored the ad.

DeWINE: Have you ever denied the facts in that ad? I said there was a mistake made in the picture, but there was no mistake in the facts.

BROWN: He didn’t fire the ad agency.

Q: Was there any factual mistake?

BROWN: Well, other than doctoring a photo?

Q: Well, you made that point.

BROWN: That’s a pretty important point.

DeWINE: He won’t answer the question. The facts are correct.

Bob Taft: 3-year tax holiday for high-tech start-ups

Charlie Wilson: Supports progressive state income tax

A: No.