Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the original figures behind the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) movement, said eliminating Ohio’s state income tax will require significant reductions in government waste and a renewed focus on core responsibilities.
Ramaswamy argued that achieving the goal of making Ohio a zero income tax state would “require a government that doesn’t spend money on unnecessary things, but actually focuses on the few things the state needs to be doing well, like infrastructure and building highways,” adding that there is a “lot of waste, a lot of fraud, a lot of abuse that we have to wring out of the system.”
He said state officials must closely examine government spending to identify and eliminate fraud, pointing to Ohio’s Medicaid budget as one of the biggest areas of concern…