Commentary & In the News

In a piece for National Review, The Buckeye Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy look at unconstitutional local tax grabs. Authors Jay Caron, senior litigator at The Buckeye Institute, and Patrick Wright, vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center in Michigan write, “What’s a city official to do when a pandemic slams tax revenue? In our home states of Michigan and Ohio, state and local leaders have an odd — and unconstitutional — answer. They want cities to tax people who neither live nor work within their limits.”

In The Sun, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, and Andrew Cline, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in Concord, NH, look at the issue at the center of New Hampshire v. Massachusetts—the unconstitutional income taxes that remote Granite State workers are required to continue paying to Massachusetts—a state where they do not live, cannot vote, and no longer work.