{"id":8687,"date":"2023-06-22T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:36:47","slug":"hicks-hudson-condemns-senate-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/hicks-hudson-condemns-senate-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Hicks-Hudson Condemns Senate Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Special to The Truth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) issued the following statement after the Ohio Senate voted to pass their version of House Bill 33, the state operating budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tax changes proposed in the Senate&#8217;s budget may benefit some Ohioans,\u201d said Hicks-Hudson. \u201cBut when you look at the effect of these purported cuts, local governments will lose millions of dollars. That translates to severe cost burdens on communities, a weakened infrastructure, and a sweeping piece of legislation that was formed without listening to the people in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As passed by the Senate, House Bill 33 expands vouchers, slashes funding for social services, and cuts taxes in a way that disproportionately and unfairly benefits Ohio\u2019s wealthiest residents. Additionally, it contains a number of controversial policy provisions, including:<\/p>\n<p>* Senate Bill 1, which would transfer almost all the powers of the state Board of Education, comprised primarily of elected members, to a new executive agency;<br \/>\n* Senate Bills 83 and 117, which would dictate what may be taught in Ohio\u2019s institutions of higher education and infringe on the collective bargaining rights of their faculty; and<br \/>\n* Senate Bill 21, which would allow the Senate President and House Speaker to hire outside legal counsel for whatever reason at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 33 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.ohio.gov\/legislation\/135\/hb33\">https:\/\/www.legislature.ohio.gov\/legislation\/135\/hb33<\/a>) now heads to the Ohio House. If the House does not concur with the Senate\u2019s changes, the bill will go to the conference committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) issued the following statement after the Ohio Senate voted to pass their version of House Bill 33, the state operating budget. \u201cThe tax changes proposed in the Senate&#8217;s budget may benefit some Ohioans,\u201d said Hicks-Hudson. \u201cBut when you look at the effect of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[180],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}