Call your Ohio Senator NOW and tell him or her to VOTE NO on a RETROACTIVE INCREASE in Ohio income taxes!

Governor Strickland announced last week that he intends to break his promise not to increase taxes in this year’s Ohio budget by instructing the General Assembly to rescind the 4.2% income tax reduction that went into effect on January 1, 2009.

As debate on cap-and-trade legislation heats up in Congress, the free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity is launching the fifth leg of its 2009 Nationwide Hot Air Tour on August 18th, exposing the extreme economic costs of proposed cap-and-trade legislation to the American taxpayer.

To the Editor,

Washington wants to hand Ohioans a huge new tax bill and Reps. Zach Space and Betty Sutton want to help. “Cap-and-trade”, the core of the recent energy tax bill, would have an enormous negative impact on the state. Some studies show Ohio could lose more than 143,000 jobs, and thousands of dollars in disposable income. Despite those effects, Space and Sutton caved to Nancy Pelosi and twice voted against the interests of their constituents, first in committee in May and then to approve the bill on the House floor last week.

As it appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer:

By Jack Boyle and Phil Kerpen

Washington wants to hand Ohio a huge new tax bill. The "cap-and-trade" scheme at the core of the energy tax bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would have an enormous negative impact on the state. An analysis by the Heritage Foundation showed that the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill would cost Ohio's 1st district 74,832 jobs and decrease household incomes by $5,909 by 2030. Rep. Steve Driehaus voted for this bill, but for the sake of their state, Sens. George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown need to vote against it.