Important facts were learned Thursday that challenge Gov. John Kasich’s carefully crafted promise from last year’s reelection campaign that “the best is yet to come” and that he’s “lifting everyone up, no matter their circumstances.”

Those promises clearly qualify as famous-last-words, as new reports debunk Camp Kasich’s rhetoric for five years so far that he’s the good-times Messiah he claims to be. For all Gov. Kasich’s rhetoric to be innovative and creative, his backward policy ideas have done little to lift up low-income workers, even though his much-touted income tax cuts have lifted up Ohio’s wealthiest to new heights.

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