COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio gives away more than $12 billion a year in tax breaks — revenue the state chooses not to collect — yet those breaks rarely face the same scrutiny as spending on schools or health care.
The list includes everything from the quirky “Bambi exemption” for building deer enclosures to basics like no sales tax on food or prescription drugs. It even stretches to the “Les Wexner credit” on conveyor belts.
In all, Ohio has 177 tax exemptions, credits, and deductions, according to a new report by Policy Matters Ohio, a left-leaning, non-profit policy research group…