© 2024 Ideastream Public Media

1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(216) 916-6100 | (877) 399-3307

WKSU is a public media service licensed to Kent State University and operated by Ideastream Public Media.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
00000174-c556-d691-a376-cdd69e710000

Strickland Outlines Tax Cut Plan

photo of Ted Strickland
JO INGLES
/
STATEHOUSE NEWS BUREAU

  One of the Democrats running for U.S. Senate is promising to push for a tax break for middle income Ohioans if he beats Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman in November. Statehouse correspondent Jo Ingles has details.

Former Governor Ted Strickland says the current tax code punishes middle class families so he wants to change it.

“I’m proposing we give a tax cut of $1000 per year to joint filers who make less than $150,000 and a single filer would get a tax cut of $500.”

Strickland’s economic plan also calls for raising the minimum wage and getting rid of tax loopholes that benefit the wealthy. Strickland’s main primary opponent, P.G. Sittenfeld, wants to debate Strickland on this and other issues. Strickland says he won’t. 

Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80’s when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.