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This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Chris Regal, about Ohio.

The news from Financial Times is that the Silicon Valley investor class, led by Peter Thiel, is in establishing

or looking to establish something like the Silicon Valley Bank that failed. In Columbus, Ohio,

why I seek out Chris's answers. There's infrastructure, there's intentionality, but mostly there's a tax base that could be very competitive.

Here, Chris explains where we are now and what the election in Ohio immediately coming up,

the gubernatorial election, may mean for Ohio in the future.

Florida comes to Ohio or Texas comes to Ohio or Silicon Valley comes to Ohio for development of

high tech. More of this tonight. So, John, that's the top top tax rate gubernatorial candidate Vivek

Ramoswami is talking about should he be successful as governor a zero percent

income tax ratio when you compare that to California at 12.3 or New York at 10.9

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