The Buckeye Institute: “Shadow Budget” Accounts for More Than Half of Ohio’s $153 Billion Budget
The Buckeye Institute released a new policy brief, Beware the Shadow Budget: Ohio Spends More than Many Think, which reveals a full picture of state government spending and is critical to understand as Ohio begins to debate its next biennial budget. In the paper, Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, pointed out that Ohio’s total expenditures will cost taxpayers more than $153 billion—more than twice the $69 billion dollar figure often cited as “Ohio’s budget.” ;