The Effort to Repeal Property Taxes and the Real Cost to Local Governments and Schools

$24 billion.

That's the new amount for how much local governments collect in local property taxes.

Compare that to the $30 billion yearly in annual General Revenue Fund taxes the state collects from sales, income, and other taxes.

The ongoing campaign to repeal property taxes comes without answers and alternatives to what happens if voters repeal them.

Senate Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino has been talking with local officials and delivers some straight talk this week about the controversy over property taxes on The President's Podcast.

After accomplishing a phase down to a single flat income tax combined with the goal of zero state income taxes in the next budget, there is little to no chance that the Ohio General Assembly would remotely consider raising income and sales taxes to fund a $24 billion dollar bailout for local governments.

Also, Senator Cirino sponsored Senate Bill 1, The Advance Higher Education Act, that after a four year policy fight finally restored the mission of Higher Education to one of educating students rather than indoctrinating students.

We get an update from him on how university trustees around the state are taking their power back and we ask him about some reported efforts on campus by faculty to get around the law by rebranding their DEI departments.