{"id":10344,"date":"2011-07-06T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2011-07-06T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T21:59:07","slug":"ohio-to-vote-on-repeal-of-obamacare-collective-bargaining-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10344\/ohio-to-vote-on-repeal-of-obamacare-collective-bargaining-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio to Vote on Repeal of ObamaCare, Collective Bargaining Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/article\/20110705\/NEWS0108\/107060320\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio Liberty Council<\/a> filed paperwork to place on a statewide ballot this November a state constitutional amendment to opt-out of ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate.\u00a0 The Tea Party group delivered over half-a-million signatures, nearly two-hundred thousand more than needed.<\/p>\n<p>On the Left, an assortment of Democratic and labor union groups claimed 1.3 million signatures in favor of repealing Ohio\u2019s stripping of collective bargaining rights from public employee unions, known locally as Senate Bill 5.<\/p>\n<p>While those who want to opt-out of ObamaCare should also support limiting public unions\u2019 ability to bankrupt taxpayers, getting both results will require educating voters to tick \u2018Yes\u2019 for the opt-out, and \u2018No\u2019 for the repeal.\u00a0 That may sound easy, but for anyone who\u2019s tried to engineer an outcome with multiple decisions for a group (i.e. logistics for a high school reunion come to mind), it isn\u2019t nearly as easy as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>So far, momentum appears to favor both the ObamaCare opt-out and repealing the collective bargaining ban.\u00a0 If those sentiments prevail, Ohioans may spare themselves a federal spending mandate while drowning themselves in a tsunami of local and state union benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested slogan: Ohioans Want Freedom, Not Mandates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Ohio Liberty Council filed paperwork to place on a statewide ballot this November a state constitutional amendment to opt-out of ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate.\u00a0 The Tea Party group delivered over half-a-million signatures, nearly two-hundred thousand more than needed. On the Left, an assortment of Democratic and labor union groups claimed 1.3 million signatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2419,311,35,1793,761,28],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-ohio","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10347,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}