Category Archives: Economy

I, Pencil: the Movie

The Buckeye Institute believes in free markets.  We know that there is simply no way in which a centralized authority can ever make wiser decisions on the allocation of scarce resources than the decentralized decision making of those on the …

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Why is Ohio on Verge of Population Decline? 

If each state in America is its own laboratory of democracy in action, there are numerous states that Ohio might want to consider emulating. Those are states that are seeing their populations grow and their private economies expand.  By contrast, …

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Indiscriminate Cuts Likely to Lead to Job Losses: What the Fiscal Cliff Means Part 3

The “Fiscal Cliff” is rapidly approaching.  We have already discussed how this combination of tax increases and indiscriminate Federal spending cuts will cost Ohioans more, potentially handicap our national defense, all while failing to address the main driver of our …

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Peace Through Strength Gutted? What the Fiscal Cliff Means Part 2

In Part 1 of our examination of the looming “Fiscal Cliff,” we noted that a failure to resolve a major policy impasse in Washington would leave Ohioans facing higher taxes and job losses as a result.  In Part 2, we …

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Happy New Year: Pay More to Uncle Sam or What the Fiscal Cliff Means Part One

Unless the impasse in Washington is resolved soon, America will go over the so-called “Fiscal Cliff.”  We’ve all heard the term, but what exactly is the “Fiscal Cliff”?  The “Fiscal Cliff” is a combination of massive tax increases as well …

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Right to Work “Works”

MediaTrackers Ohio has an excellent post highlighting some of the talking points being used by opponents of bringing Right to Work to Ohio.   None of it is surprising given that the group responsible, We are Ohio, receives the vast …

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Hey Krugman: Remember the Laffer Curve…?

In his most recent, and highly visible, op-ed, Paul Krugman appears to pine for days when the US had a 91 percent top marginal income tax rate.  Unfortunately, as Mickey Kaus points out here, the notion that such a high …

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