New Ohio budget, tax cut for top bracket, throws disabled to the wolves?

[classics]

I read an article today in the Plain Dealer that the new Ohio budget will give a 1% tax break to the top income bracket, and at the same time throw all disabled people off all medical coverage.

Anyone know if this is accurate?

[Tux]

1. Post already

It's already been posted. Yes, Ohio will no longer pay for disability. They have to get jobs or lose it all. It's sad but it's what Ohio folks voted for when they voted to ban gay marriage and straight Republicians for being Christians.

[purduejake]

2. I've heard of this before...

attacks against gays and disabled. Seems another country did that at one point in history. Okay, we aren't slaughtering them yet, just ripping apart families and treating them less-than-human.

[cornermouse]

3. Jobs are hard to get for "abled" people.

Disabled people are usually the first to lose their jobs and the last to be hired. Compassionate conservatism in action...

On edit: For any money earned, the government takes money away, but they don't notify you that you owe them money until several months later when the amount can be rather breath-taking if you are depending on that money to meet bills which IS why they are giving it to you. Disabled don't always work a regular amount of hours because they can't. Budgets are impossible. And if you run into an employer who is, say, less than honest, the disabled are easily cheated out of their money. Hire a lawyer to engage in a "frivolous" lawsuit, you say? With what? Wishes and hopes?

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

10. There is no compassion

in conservatism!

[ArchTeryx]

4. Other posts?

Posted where?

[AngryOldDem]

5. True...this morning the banner headline was

that Taft wants to cut Medicare.

But the GOOD NEWS is, folks, we may get to choose whether or not we want "One nation under God" on our license plates. That was the other state story on the front page of the Dayton Daily News.

Honest to God...I can't pick up the paper or turn on the news anymore without getting sick to my stomach and/or my blood pressure rising to stroke level.

With this proposed cut, combined with everything else that Bush wants to do to the poor on a national scale, I have to ask where our sense of morals and values has gone.

[OzarkDem]

6. Not exactly

Disabled people get Social Security disability income and are covered by Medicaid or Medicare. I've yet to figure out exactly why this program was necessary anyway, unless it covered a group of people who weren't eligible for other disability programs.

[classics]

7. Medi*

Are the Medicade and Medicare programs the same state programs they are proposing cutting out, or some other program?

[dsc]

8. not exactly

My mom, who died at age 63, was totally disabled for most of her seventh decade. She didn't qualify for either Medicare (too young) nor Medicaid (my dad's pension was too high) without very stringent spenddowns. They literally would have had to live on about a hundred a month after rent. They only way she got covered was in a program intended to keep people out of nursing homes.

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

9. Not familiar with this

are there links?

But I can attest that my husband's brother got a small (very small) state disability check while fighting for his SS disability. It took him almost 3 years to get SS. I mean he only has congestive heart disease...what's disabling about that?
DUH!

Ohio is not a "poor" friendly place to live...and I was born and raised here.