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The Buckeye Institute: Renewing Driver’s Licenses Every Eight Years Will Save Ohioans Time and Money

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, submitted written testimony to the Ohio House Transportation and Public Safety Committee on the policies in House Bill 372, which would save taxpayers time and money by renewing driver’s license and identification cards every eight years rather than every four. In his testimony, Lawson noted that the reprieve on renewing licenses and ID cards, Lawson wrote, “will shorten lines and decrease wait time for tens of thousands of Ohioans,” and “lifts a small, but meaningful government burden, and helps give real time and money back to Ohio workers.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Policymakers Should Embrace Efforts to Stretch Local Tax Dollars

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, testified on Wednesday before the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee on the policies in House Bill 264, which would focus taxpayer dollars on Ohio’s critical infrastructure needs. Lawson urged policymakers to “embrace any effort to stretch local tax dollars and reduce fiscal burdens on taxpayers and local governments whenever possible.” 

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“The Buckeye Institute: Policies in House Bill 263 Would Help Ohioans Get Out of Prison’s Revolving Door, and into Jobs”

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Daniel J. Dew, legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute’s Legal Center, testified Wednesday before the Ohio House Commerce and Labor Committee on the policies in House Bill 263, which reduce needless occupational licensing restrictions that make it harder for ex-offenders to find jobs after they are released from prison. In his testimony, Dew said that narrowly tailored restrictions “would help Ohio grant more licenses to worthy applicants while protecting public safety.”

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The Buckeye Institute-Inspired Ohio Checkbook Ensures Government Transparency and Should be Made Permanent

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, submitted written to the Ohio Senate Government and Agency Review Committee on the policies in House Bill 46, which would secure Ohio’s progress on transparency and government accountability by codifying the Ohio Checkbook initiative, writing, “Showing Ohio taxpayers how their elected officials spend their hard-earned tax dollars helps citizens better understand what their government does and how it operates. ”

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Buckeye Institute-Championed Policy Would Increase Job Opportunities for Military Families

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, testified Wednesday before the Ohio House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee on the policies in Senate Bill 7 and the importance of removing barriers to employment for Ohio’s military families. The policies in Senate Bill 7 were developed from recommendations made by The Buckeye Institute in its 2016 policy brief Increasing Job Opportunities for Military Families.

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio’s Experience with Medicaid Expansion Should Raise Red Flags for Florida

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, testified Monday before the Florida Financial Impact Estimating Conference on the financial estimates and impacts of Medicaid expansion. In 2020, Florida voters will vote on a constitutional amendment that will expand Medicaid to cover healthy, able-bodied adults with no children.

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“The Buckeye Institute: Taxpayer Funded Subsidies Lead to Higher Costs, Fewer Jobs”

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Greg R. Lawson, a research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, testified Wednesday before the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee on the policies in House Bill 6, which creates a taxpayer funded subsidy to prop-up failing businesses, saying, “The Buckeye Institute opposes government subsidies, pure and simple…using the power of government to disadvantage market competitors makes for bad public policy.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Removing Restrictions on Nurses Will Improve Access to Health Care and Reduce Costs

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Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, testified Tuesday before the Ohio House Health Committee on the policies in House Bill 177, which would lift unnecessary restrictions placed on nurses that drive up health care costs and limit access to care for Ohioans.

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“The Buckeye Institute: Ohio’s Budget Remains Too Large, Too Unsustainable”

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Greg R. Lawson, a research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, testified Monday before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on the Ohio Senate’s version of House Bill 166—Ohio’s biennial budget, noting that “despite many improvements, the Senate’s proposed budget remains too large [and] too unsustainable to weather anything other than the sunniest economic conditions.”

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The Buckeye Institute Testifies Before Arizona Corporation Commission on its Analysis of Electric Car Subsidies

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Andrew J. Kidd, Ph.D., an economist with the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute and the co-author of It Ain’t Easy Being Green: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Electric Vehicles in Arizona, testified Wednesday before the Arizona Corporation Commission on the proposed policy that would allow Arizona’s public utilities to build charging stations for electric vehicles and pass the costs on to Arizonans through higher utility bills.

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