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This week on "The State of Ohio": The budget is on its way to a committee that will hammer out the differences before the end of the month deadline. But there are serious issues on both sides that could slow down the talks. A billion dollars is headed back to Ohio employers who paid into the states Bureau of Workers' Comp program. But a critic says the BWC has an outstanding bill that remains unpaid. And more on how Ohio's poorest people are surviving the rising costs of a basic existence.
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| Truckers trying to drive home their point - they see fee increase as tax hike. |
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By Bill Cohen - March 10, 2009 |
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Gov. Ted Strickland keeps saying he is not pushing for tax increases, but don't tell that to Ohio trucking companies. Their owners are facing a huge increase in the fees they pay on overweight and oversized trucks, and they consider the fee hike a tax hike. Whatever you call the extra charges, backers of them say there's good reason for them. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen has both sides of the story. |
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Bill Cohen reports (4:03) 
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