Brian McCann for State Representative
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Issues:

McCann and the Environment | Reconnecting Ohio to its communities | Quality of Life
Crime prevention | Job Security | Tax Reform | Corporate Responsibility | End of One Party Rule
Higher Education

Job Security

  • This means creating an economic climate so the private sector can succeed in Ohio, but also ensuring that corporations live up to their responsibility to play by the rules and do right by their employees.
  • This means protecting opportunity in the classroom by reforming the way we pay for schools in this state. Ohio's schoolchildren shouldn't be prisoners of geography when it comes to getting a sound education.
  • This means fighting for real reform of our public pension systems, not opening the door to the influence of special interests.
  • This means making college affordable for middle class families, not letting huge tuition increases price our young people out of the market for the good paying jobs of the future.
  • This means making sure that work pays. It doesn't mean eliminating day care vounchers for working parents trying to get ahead.

Tax Reform

  • This means fighting for real tax reform that ensures big corporations pay their fair share. It doesn't mean shifting even more of the state's tax burden onto middle class families.
  • This means giving our schools the support they deserve and not shifting the state's responsibilites onto the backs of local property taxpayers.
  • This means operating state government with fiscal discipline and living within our means - just like middle-class families do.

Corporate Responsibility

  • If we are going to invest your dollars in the private sector through tax incentives, grants and venture capital, then we must make sure these investments are actually creating jobs.
  • If we are going to invest public tax dollars in private charter schools, then we must make sure these schools are held accountable for their results.
  • If big corporations move offshore to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, they shouldn't be rewarded.

End of One Party Rule

  • Five-year-olds should not be plunking down thousand-dollar political donations to help Columbus insiders evade campaign finance laws and curry favor with politicians.
  • Government employees should not be chauffered on the taxpayers' dime.
  • Citizens shouldn't have to beg state lawmakers for help in making health care more affordable

Higher Education

  • Tuition costs continue to rise all out of proportion to the ability of families to pay. Last year, tuition was hiked by an average of:
    • 6.2 percent at community colleges
    • 8.6 percent at state community colleges
    • 9.4 percent at technical colleges
    • 12.4 percent at branch campuses (including 28.6 percent at Ohio State University's Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark campuses)
    • 11.4 percent at university main campuses (and 16.9 percent at Ohio State)
  • Average tuition and related costs at Ohio's four year universities are now 67 percent higher than the national average. Tuition at Ohio's community colleges are 53 percent higher than the national average.
  • In Ohio, students and their families bear 48 percent of the cost of college through tuition and other expenses. Across the country, families are only expected to contribute just 31 percent. This reflects a lack of state support for higher eductation.
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