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Speaker 2: So what's the state of Ohio taking away from you today?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday it was THC drinks, you know, because that's killed

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Speaker 1: in a lot of people share today. How about some

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Speaker 1: higher taxes. Are you a fan of higher taxes. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan of higher taxes. So the Ohio legislature,

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Speaker 1: the General Assembly, is moving to tax you, mister and

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Speaker 1: missus homeowner if you decide that you're going to rent

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Speaker 1: Seems to me like a raw deal, you know, new taxes.

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Speaker 1: There's no protections in here. Local governments can still ban

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Speaker 1: Joining the show from the Buckeye Institute in Columbus is

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Speaker 1: Greg Laws and Greg.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: We have this, as you know, being in Ohio, you

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Speaker 1: know we have this insane property tax burden going on

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Speaker 1: right now, some people paying three hundred percent more property taxes.

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Speaker 1: There's a move to eliminate property taxes entirely. And now

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Speaker 1: this is this a good idea?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's certainly not a good idea to just tax people.

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Speaker 3: There's an argument that in some areas that don't have

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Speaker 3: in particular, unfortunately, House Bill one sixty one, is just

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Speaker 3: But it does nothing about what is a growing problem

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Speaker 3: That's something that is happening under the home rules stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess your local municipality.

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Speaker 1: If you have a problem with the your HOA can

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Speaker 3: Well, the argument is that you have hotels that already

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Speaker 2: Well, what is it great?

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Speaker 3: Well, we're basically saying that people have the right to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look at it this way.

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Speaker 1: Kathy Hochele, governor in New York State, she went on

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Speaker 1: we don't want you here unless you're gonna pay your

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Speaker 2: You should be paying your fair share.

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Speaker 1: Well guess what liberal Democrat or conservative Republican aside, they

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Speaker 1: I mean Indiana, Florida and Arizona also do this as well,

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Speaker 1: here from Buckeye Institute in Columbus, as the state of

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Speaker 1: Ohio yesterday took the THG drinks away. Today higher taxes

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Speaker 1: at the top of the insane property tax were paying. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you want to rent out your home of a

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Speaker 1: And you know you could pay taxes today and face

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Speaker 1: I can't help but think back to all of these

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Speaker 1: mean New York City alone, the price of a hack medallion,

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Speaker 1: So from a business perspective, it doesn't seem fair that

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Speaker 3: Well, I think this is a broad that's a big

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Speaker 3: is and when you're nailing certain people, they're going to

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Speaker 3: hearing about the level playing field argument, which on one

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Speaker 3: it's a right thing to do is to make sure

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Speaker 3: And I think you have to look at what are

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Speaker 3: scene that the Sophiallo counters like kind of right, because

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Speaker 3: what you're essentially saying is we're going to raise the

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Speaker 3: so that we can do that. Now, you know, I

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Speaker 3: And when we're doing this, and you occasionally see bills

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Speaker 3: an additional thing for one visitor Beuera overs another visitors bureau.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to just brag on them. They

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Speaker 3: can't help to raise awareness, to get it, do certain

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Speaker 3: and so there may be sum rationale for some of that,

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Speaker 3: but we need to be very careful when we're applying

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Speaker 1: Greg Laws and Buckeye and watch out for it. It's

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Speaker 1: House Bill one sixty one, come in for more property taxes.

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Speaker 1: Basically what this is all the best, Thanks again, Budd, appreciate.

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Speaker 3: You, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We'll get a news update in here momentarily on the

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Speaker 1: big one seven hundred w Ody. This is why I

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Speaker 1: going to get screwed the next day and then talk

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Speaker 1: to you about it. Coming up next, Andy Schaeffer, we'll

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Speaker 1: look at the other side of this thing. If you're

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Speaker 1: hearing this, go oh, it's too much. Hold on just

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Speaker 1: a second. I got some information for it. It's going

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Speaker 1: to make you a little bit happier today, despite all

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Speaker 1: the craziness in the world.

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Speaker 2: Simply money. Next seven hundred ww