It’s no secret that Bob Evans cooks up tasty meat treats. Less publicized is how the sausage is made: With millions of your tax dollars.
Earlier this year, the company announced plans to move its headquarters from the south side of Columbus to a nearby suburb. Waiting just down the street was more than $7 million in state money for pulling up stakes, plus tax abatements.
Then a few weeks ago, Governor John Kasich used the company as an example of why the benefits of public employees need to be cut: “When I go to Bob Evans and I see a woman working there who doesn’t have any pension, and I don’t even know if she has health-care benefits, and if she does they’re shabby, to think we’re asking public workers to do a little more … it’s fairness.”
This article appears in Apr 27 – May 3, 2011.
I was a waitress….and I would be now, if I were stronger. So I am in no way slamming wait staff. But is Kasich aware the qualifications of a good teacher are somewhat higher than they are for a waitress at Bob Evans?
BTW, has he renounced HIS government pension?
NO, and he gave his old cronies raises!
Kasich. You wanted him, you got him. He is a Wall Street insider and a corporate thief. All the people that voted for him should be coming to the conclusion that he is just out for himself and his cronies. He’s the one that raped the Ohio Seniors of their retirement funds by sending them to Wall Street.