{"id":9714,"date":"2011-05-16T19:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:52:53","slug":"checking-in-on-ohios-john-kasich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9714\/checking-in-on-ohios-john-kasich\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in on Ohio&#8217;s John Kasich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the media attention being lavished on governors Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Scott Walker (R-WI), it\u2019s easy to forget another Midwestern chief executive: Ohio\u2019s John Kasich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=43523\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Human Events<\/em><\/a>\u2019 John Gizzi reports that the Ohio governor is bullish on winning a statewide initiative over whether public employees must increase their percentage of health care spending from 9 to 15 percent.\u00a0 (Compared to the average 23 percent contribution in the private sector.)<\/p>\n<p>Kasich is also preparing legislation with state Republican lawmakers to eventually eliminate Ohio\u2019s income tax.\u00a0 If these and other reforms are successful, Kasich might start getting the attention his herculean efforts deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the media attention being lavished on governors Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Scott Walker (R-WI), it\u2019s easy to forget another Midwestern chief executive: Ohio\u2019s John Kasich. Human Events\u2019 John Gizzi reports that the Ohio governor is bullish on winning a statewide initiative over whether public employees must increase their percentage of health care spending [&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":[70,12,2698,913,1793,761,2412],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-health-care","tag-john-kasich","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-ohio","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-scott-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","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=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}