The Legislature failed to reduce the income tax and increased state government spending by $321 million. Following the lead of Gov. Scot...

Actions speak louder than words. After the 2012 legislative session, Oklahoma voters have a right to ask politicians: Is fiscal conserva...

For those whose fiscal conservatism is a matter of DNA (fundamental beliefs) rather than political opportunism, words seem inadequate to...

Economic gold rush? Or fiscal wreck? Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback took a grand gamble Tuesday with a monumental tax plan that he hopes wi...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a tax-cut measure that had divided GOP lawmakers in one of the country's most fiscally...

One way is to increase the after-tax income of these businesses by eliminating the state personal income tax, because sole proprietorshi...

Previously in these pages we have used a powerful new database of Oklahoma’s businesses—the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Da...

By a better than two-to-one margin, Oklahomans favor cutting the state income tax to 4.75 percent. Most significant groups top 50 perce...

By a better than two-to-one margin Oklahomans favor cutting the state income tax to 4.75%. Most significant groups top 50% in their sup...

“When President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in 1981, policymakers and economists were flummoxed about how to drag us out of the mire o...

On March 12, a contingent of nine Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives discussed their advocacy of legislation ai...

As policymakers across America look for ways to bolster economic growth, they are increasingly considering changes in tax policy. Lawmak...

Legislation currently making its way through the process would reduce and eventually phase out Oklahoma’s personal income tax. Economis...

On March 12, a contingent of nine Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives discussed their advocacy of legislation ai...

When Ron Paul talks about repealing the income tax and replacing it with nothing, most people think it can’t be done. But at least on t...

A contingent of nine Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives today (Monday, March 12) discussed their advocacy of le...

As the income-tax-phaseout discussion continues, what's shaping up at the Oklahoma state capitol is a clash of visions. Also in this is...

As the country slowly puts the “Great Recession” behind it, American families are still struggling with financial difficulties. Some fin...

The Great Recession of 2008-10 put in serious doubt longstanding assumptions that the overall tax burden on American taxpayers must incr...

House Bill 3038, characterized by state Rep. Leslie Osborn as a “pristine version of Dr. Laffer’s Laffer plan,” cleared the state House ...