State Budgets

    The Myth of Slashed Education Funding

    By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:10 AM  | 

    No matter where you live I am sure you have heard the same argument I hear continually: “Republicans are slashing spending and hurting kids.” Health care, education, you name it, this is the refrain. The problem? It’s not true. In May I offered a chart that highlighted how spending is not the path to growth.  Today I want to focus on education.  Look at the | Read More »

    State Spending Not The Path to Growth

    By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  May 10th at 05:30 PM  | 

    I wanted to bring to your attention a short report released by The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions (full disclosure: I am the president) focused on state spending burdens and their connection, or lack thereof, to economic growth. Adam Schwiebert, The Diehl Family Fellow at the Buckeye Institute, put together a short policy brief that uses a measurement know as “state spending burden” – comparing combined state | Read More »

    The Ohio House Dems budget mistake

    By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  June 11th at 03:09 PM  | 

    Cross posted to Ohio Politics Online. I think the Democrat Majority in the Ohio House of Representatives made a big mistake when they passed their bloated and unrealistic budget.  Here is what I said at the time: I am not sure you can find a more uncertain economic environment than the current one in recent memory.  So prudence requires that you limit future damage by | Read More »