In a new policy memo, Restoring Legislative Oversight, The Buckeye Institute urged Ohio lawmakers to restore legislative oversight to Ohio’s rule-making process to ensure that elected officials are responsible for costly government regulations imposed on Ohioans. “By restoring legislative oversight over this process, Ohioans can hold their elected officials accountable for major, costly regulations while preserving executive authority over essential administrative functions and emergency responses.”

In Unlocking Capital, The Buckeye Institute’s economic modeling revealed that eliminating Ohio’s capital gains tax would lead to $1.15 billion in economic growth and 1,400 new jobs in the first year after implementation. Using STELA, a dynamic scoring model developed by economists at The Buckeye Institute, the paper’s authors analyzed the economic impact of eliminating Ohio’s capital gains tax on the state’s businesses, families, economy, and revenues.

Using STELA—The Buckeye Institute’s dynamic scoring model—The Buckeye Institute revealed that a proposed 9.9 percent Washington state income tax on high earners included in Senate Bill 6346 would ravage the state’s economy with a loss of $4.9 billion in economic growth. The findings were published in Washington’s Tax Gamble, in partnership with Washington Policy Center, and provide voters and policymakers with a better understanding of how Senate Bill 6346 will affect the state’s businesses, families, economy, and revenues.

In a new policy brief, Don’t Pull the Plug: A Better Blueprint for Ohio’s Data Center Future, The Buckeye Institute argues against short-sighted blanket bans on data centers and instead calls on state and local governments to address the challenges data centers pose without unnecessarily discouraging—or killing—investment in this vital new industry. “While Ohio policymakers should not dismiss legitimate public concerns about data centers, they should reject moratoriums on their construction.”

As Ohio prepares to celebrate Labor Day and Ohio’s workers, The Buckeye Institute is out with a new policy brief, Expanding Ohio’s Workforce Pipeline, that offers specific policy recommendations Ohio lawmakers can adopt to prepare workers for the in-demand, high-skilled jobs that 21st century employers need to fill. “Ohio has made remarkable strides toward prosperity and economic advancement in recent years; however, it still struggles to train and retain a ready-to-hire workforce.”

In a new policy report, The Cost of Aging, The Buckeye Institute offers durable and cost-effective solutions to providing long-term care for Ohio’s aging population. With 2.2 million residents older than 65, and an elderly population that is growing faster than the national average, the need to address the state’s long-term care crisis is now. “The Buckeye Institute’s report offers policymakers a series of comprehensive recommendations that are essential for meeting demand and sustaining Ohio’s fiscal health.”

Ohio has emerged as a leading state for data center development, which has attracted billions of dollars in economic growth and provided a blueprint for other states to attract investment, according to a new report from The Buckeye Institute in partnership with National Taxpayers Union released Wednesday. The report, written by Aswin Prabhakar, economic research analyst at The Buckeye Institute, highlights four policies Ohio got right.

In a new policy memo, The Buckeye Institute urged Ohio policymakers to pursue reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to avoid being hit with a $321 million bill for high rates of fraud, waste, and abuse. Rea S. Hederman Jr., vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, outlined reforms that are necessary because the federal government “now requires states with a six percent or higher erroneous payment rate to pay between five and 15 percent of benefit costs.”

In a new policy report, Damaging Consequences, The Buckeye Institute models the economic impact that a federal carbon tax would have on the U.S. economy, job creation, tax collection, consumer spending, and business investment. Buckeye’s economic modeling revealed that an $800 billion annual carbon tax would cost every American $2,900 annually and devastate the U.S. economy, resulting in  $1.2 trillion in economic loss in 2034.

In a new policy report, The Buckeye Institute exposes how public nuisance legal theory is being used to attack energy companies and set U.S. energy policy through the courts. “The rash of public nuisance climate lawsuits spreading across the nation is a dangerous attempt to use the courts to force communities to adopt net-zero carbon-emissions policies. This effort to impose an ESG agenda through the courts, after failing to do so through Congress, would financially cripple energy companies and threaten the U.S. economy.”