In a new policy memo, Shine a Light on Ohio’s Shadow Government, The Buckeye Institute urges the General Assembly to override line-item vetoes of three Buckeye Institute-championed provisions that lawmakers passed in Ohio House Bill 96 regarding legislative oversight of agency rulemaking, Controlling Board authority, and government spending. “The legislature has the votes to override these vetoes and restore reasonable guardrails that The Buckeye Institute has advocated for years, regardless of which party holds the executive and legislative reins.” 

The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Education Committee on the policies in Ohio Senate Bill 328, which will connect Ohio’s classrooms to prepare students for careers in in-demand fields. The emerging high-tech changes in Ohio’s economy “are structural, not incremental,” and to sustain growth in these “21st-century technologies,” Ohio needs “durable alignment” between its education system and employers’ needs.
 

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to hear Miller v. McDonald. In 2019, New York state stopped allowing religious exemptions to its state vaccine mandate, something it had allowed for more than 50 years, even for children who attend private Amish schools. “For hundreds of years, the Amish have eschewed modern worldly influences, including modern medicine. It is a core part of their religious beliefs and a right that the U.S. Constitution protects.”

Cleveland.com again features The Buckeye Institute’s monumental case challenging the federal prohibition on home distilling: U.S. Department of Justice v. McNutt (formerly McNutt v. U.S. Department of Justice), which the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear. “John Ream can legally make beer at home. He can make wine, too. But if the Newark, Ohio, hobby brewer uses similar skills to produce whiskey for himself and his wife, he could be committing a federal crime.”

In The Citizens’ Voice, The Buckeye Institute and Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Foundation urge Keystone State lawmakers to look to Ohio for solutions to its power problem. “Nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvanians agree: Energy is unaffordable. Pennsylvania’s average residential electricity price was 11 percent higher this July than a year earlier, and it has risen by 45 percent since 2018.” “Pennsylvania should borrow Ohio’s playbook and begin comprehensive permitting reform to establish clear rules over political discretion.”

In a new policy memo, Restoring Legislative Oversight, The Buckeye Institute urged Ohio lawmakers to restore legislative oversight to Ohio’s rule-making process to ensure that elected officials are responsible for costly government regulations imposed on Ohioans. “By restoring legislative oversight over this process, Ohioans can hold their elected officials accountable for major, costly regulations while preserving executive authority over essential administrative functions and emergency responses.”

In this episode of Law Talk, Richard Epstein, John Yoo, and Charles C.W. Cooke discuss The Buckeye Institute’s monumental case challenging the federal prohibition on home distilling: U.S. Department of Justice v. McNutt (formerly McNutt v. U.S. Department of Justice), which the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear, and whether the federal government can ban you from making whiskey in your own home. Law Talk is a podcast of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

In Unlocking Capital, The Buckeye Institute’s economic modeling revealed that eliminating Ohio’s capital gains tax would lead to $1.15 billion in economic growth and 1,400 new jobs in the first year after implementation. Using STELA, a dynamic scoring model developed by economists at The Buckeye Institute, the paper’s authors analyzed the economic impact of eliminating Ohio’s capital gains tax on the state’s businesses, families, economy, and revenues.

The Buckeye Institute and Washington Policy Center feature the impacts of Senate Bill 6346 on Washington’s economy, writing, “[I]t will cost Washington roughly $4.9 billion in GDP, $3.1 billion in private investment, and about 7,800 jobs,” and urging Washington lawmakers to “look for solutions that preserve the advantages fostered by the state’s “no income tax” past, without jeopardizing its fiscal future.”

BBC News features The Buckeye Institute’s monumental case challenging the federal prohibition on home distilling: U.S. Department of Justice v. McNutt (formerly McNutt v. U.S. Department of Justice), which the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear. “The Supreme Court announced this week that it would reconsider the 1868 legislation forbidding the practice, and hobby distillers hope that their spirits will soon be treated like beer and wine, which are both legal to brew at home across the country.”