An income tax break for Ohio鈥檚 small businesses in recent years is under fire from Democrats and some Republicans. . Gov. John Kasich is firmly rejecting those suggestions.
Recently, ended that state鈥檚 tax break for small businesses, saying it didn鈥檛 create jobs and cost the state too much money. A similar tax break is costing Ohio more than a billion dollars, but Kasich says he鈥檚 not for ending it.
鈥淭o raise taxes? Nah, we don鈥檛 raise taxes in this state.鈥�
Kasich says the case in Kansas is different because that state didn鈥檛 cut spending at the same time the tax breaks were enacted, and he says Ohio did. of projections for this fiscal year.
