The Buckeye Institute

June 20, 2017

Press Releases, Testimony & Public Comments

The Buckeye Institute Calls for Greater Education Choice and Opportunities for Ohio’s Families

The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Education and Career Readiness Committee on Opportunity Scholarship program and education savings accounts that are contained in House Bill 200. “Despite the exceptional resources devoted to schools and education over the last few decades, we have yet to see academic gains commensurate with those investments. At least one reason we seem unable to reap significant gains lies in our failure to adapt to the changing realities of our new century.”

Press Releases, Testimony & Public Comments

The Buckeye Institute Calls for Reduced Tax Burden on Out-of-State Emergency Workers

The Buckeye Institute submitted testimony to the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee on the policies in House Bill 133 and called for Ohio to eliminate the tax burden on out-of-state emergency workers who serve Ohio for fewer than 60 days during times of disaster. “According to the Tax Foundation, America’s leading non-partisan tax research organization, Ohio has the unfortunate distinction of owning the worst municipal income tax system in the country.”

Policy Research & Reports

Nuclear Power Subsidy: A Radioactive Proposal for Ohio

Ohio has two nuclear power plants. Both the Davis-Besse and the Perry nuclear plants are owned and operated by FirstEnergy. Both plants are failing. FirstEnergy’s latest proposal to save the plants, the ZEN program, calls for more government subsidies and higher costs for local electricity consumers. The better course would be to maintain free and competitive energy markets, even if it means that Ohio loses two unprofitable nuclear plants.

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