In a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, Ohio lawmakers appear to be hoping residents won’t notice what they slipped into House Bill 96 on Tuesday afternoon.

While some of them tout efforts to reduce and reform other taxes, they may be hoping to make up some of the difference by collecting what the Office of Budget and Management estimates to be more than $100 million in new ones.

When the state Senate Finance Committee adopted their substitute version of HB 96, it included the repealing of sales and use tax exemptions for rental payments for motor vehicles provided to the owner or lessee of a motor vehicle that is being repaired or serviced, where the payments are reimbursed by the service provider; for the transfer of all copyrighted motion picture films, including those transfe

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