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 »

Don’t Mess with Christie

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  May 21st at 12:30 PM  | 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasted no time yesterday in vetoing two tax increases passed by the Democratic legislature. Christie signed his disapproval of the measures reinstating an expired surcharge on “millionaires” almost before the ink was even dry on their pages. Video here. State Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is also a private sector union boss, let his thuggish ways show just a bit | Read More »