Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Issue 1: Wrong for Ohio

Issue 1 is nothing more than Gov. Taft's Third Frontier initiative that voters soundly rejected once before. This time, the governor has added a bond issue for "public infrastructure" in order to sweeten the deal.

Robert Lawson, a Capitol University Economics Professor, rips Issue 1 to shreds in this piece for the Buckeye Institute. He sums this issue up better than anyone else:
Voters should know exactly what they are voting for when they pull the lever on Issue 1 come election day, and it is nothing more than industrial planning, corporate welfare and socialism dressed up as a jobs plan.
Read the whole piece if you are not sure what to think of Issue 1.