governors and legislators keep pleading poverty, saying how broke the states are. then the proposed solutions to the problem of how broke they are is to make the state more broke, to make the budgets worse. think about this for a second. for all of ohio s budget troubles, one bright spot is that ohio had an income stream of nearly $230 million last year from booze to help pay for the state s needs. governor kasich is trying to get rid of that bright spot. governor kasich is trying to get rid of that black ink in the ate buetnd instd ge aw. te of o taking a whole that exists in the budget gap and blast tg into an expanse in the budget. anybody that reports that republican governors and legislators are taking drastic measures to close the state budget gaps is not reporting there truthfully.