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The Buckeye Institute: Regulatory Reform Will Boost Economic Growth

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee on the need for regulatory reform in Ohio and Senate Bill 1. “Ohio desperately needs regulatory reform that eliminates unnecessary regulations that strangle private industry and enterprise as part of the state’s broader reform efforts to boost economic growth…If Ohio does not focus its regulations and rules on protecting the public from genuine harm, the state will continue to see slower growth and lower prosperity compared to many other states.”

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“The Buckeye Institute Urges Meaningful, Sustainable Reform in State Budget”

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Finance Committee on House Bill 166, the House version of Ohio’s biennial budget. “House Bill 166 echoes many of the themes that Governor Mike DeWine has spent years discussing. They include well-intended reforms aimed at making Ohio a better place for children, the economically disadvantaged, and those rightfully concerned about our natural recourses. But the budget that the governor proposes is simply too large and must be scaled back strategically.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Subsidies Make for Bad Public Policy

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy Generation on the policies in House Bill 6. “The Buckeye Institute opposes government subsidies, pure and simple. Any subsidy given to one entity puts other competitors at a disadvantage. And using the power of government to disadvantage market competitors makes for bad public policy…[G]overnment interference and costly subsidies inevitably lead to higher costs and fewer created jobs, making Ohio poorer and weaker, not wealthier and stronger.”

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The Buckeye-Institute Inspired OhioCheckbook.com Has Made Government More Accountable and Should be Made Permanent

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee on the policies in House Bill 46, which secure Ohio’s progress on transparency and government accountability by codifying the Ohio Checkbook initiative. “[T]his effort is just the beginning. True transparency will not be achieved until every governmental unit has opened its account books and made them available online for all of us—every Ohio taxpayer—to better understand how our governments work on our behalf.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Clarity on Ballot Issues Will Make Taxing and Spending Decisions More Transparent to Voters

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Ways and Means Committee on the policies in House Bill 76 and the importance of making local tax levy questions easier for voters to understand. In the testimony, Buckeye noted how “complicated and complex ballot language obscures the issues and prevents voters from making informed decisions, casting meaningful votes, and holding their representatives accountable.”

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Legislation Developed from Buckeye Institute Proposal Would Remove Employment Barriers for Military Spouses

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Transportation, Commerce, and Workforce Committee on Senate Bill 7, which was developed from recommendations made by The Buckeye Institute in its 2016 policy brief Increasing Job Opportunities for Military Families. The policies in Senate Bill 7 would be “a positive sign that military spouses stationed here do not need special permission slips from the state to earn a living.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio Courts Should Look to the Text of Laws to Determine Legislative Intent

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Senate Bill 108, which would eliminate a law—Ohio Revised Code Section 1.49—that encourages Ohio courts to rely on problematic sources to devise the legislative intent of ambiguous statutes. “By instructing Ohio courts to look for meaning outside the text of a statute, Revised Code 1.49 encourages courts to circumvent the constitutional legislative process…Ohio courts should look to the text of statutes rather than extrinsic evidence of dubious value.”

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The Buckeye Institute Urges Policymakers to Use Proven Free-Market Principles to Reduce the Cost of Health Care for Ohioans

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Health Committee on how policymakers can use the proven free-market principle of competition to reduce the cost of health care in Ohio. “In health care, competitive forces that give consumers choices and options for procuring treatment and services help to reduce costs and improve care for patients.” A view shared by the former director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission during the Obama Administration.

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“The Buckeye Institute: With Reforms, Ohio Would Be National Leader on Drug Sentencing Policy”

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Senate Bill 341 and the need for criminal sentencing reform in Ohio. “Ohio stands among the nation’s leaders in looking for commonsense policies that will keep our neighborhoods safe while ensuring that non-violent offenders do not overrun our prisons or our courts, and that those who have gotten clean can return to society and contribute again as fathers, mothers, employees, and citizens.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Federalism—Greatest Check on Federal Power—Must be Protected

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Federalism and Interstate Relations Committee on Senate Concurrent Resolution 23 and the importance of constitutional federalism. “Federalism is that unique system of sovereignty and power that protects the people of one state from the dictated policy preferences of another. It allows those governments closest to the people to determine the policies that impact daily life…”

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