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How fast does Oklahoma’s state government spend your money?
I’ve lamented before that, just as President Barack Obama is the biggest government spender in world history, Oklahoma’s curren...
Oklahoma’s monopoly education system gets more money
Like cicadas emerging from their shells, they come out every spring — a delegation from Oklahoma’s monopoly education system warning us ...
OK higher education officials tout economic impact, but critics dou...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tenured professors and tax-financed researchers in higher education generally believe that public education spending is ...
Oklahoma policymakers fed up with federal spending ‘finally have a ...
“As the battle over Medicaid expansion rages in the states,” Christina Corieri writes today in The Wall Street Journal, “suppor...
Tip sheet: Story ideas from outside the bubble
There are many explanations (technological, demographic, et al.) for the chart above, and I’m not prepared to make the case that liberal...
VIDEO: Oklahoma’s school staffing surge
I recently sat down with Dr. Ben Scafidi, professor of economics at Georgia College, to discuss the startling growth in bureaucratic ove...
Overhead growth not helping students, taxpayers
For many years OCPA has drawn attention to the excessive bureaucratic overhead in Oklahoma’s public education system. Indeed, the sy...
Is Increased Spending Oklahoma’s Default Setting?
With credit to Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole, who recently compared the current struggle over the federal budget to a five-act drama, it...
Debunking 'Progressive' Myths
The U.S. economy has recently suffered its deepest and most prolonged recession since the Great Depression. The fundamental causes of th...
Oklahoma Medicaid costs growing
This legislative session, policymakers are focused on a number of government functions, including a major focus on spending, as usual. ...
Kansas Is Cutting Taxes, Right-Sizing Government
On January 1, 2013, historic tax cuts were implemented in Kansas. Lawmakers in Nebraska and Louisiana are watching, with the chief exec...
State of the State: Top five policy solutions to look forward to in...
As the OCPA team watched and tweeted Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin’s third State of the State address today, we were encouraged by several p...
OCPA Reacts to the Governor's State of the State Address
OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 4, 2013) -- As the OCPA team watched Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin's third State of the State address today, we were enc...
A Valley Forge Moment for Conservatives
[Below is the text of Sen. Coburn’s speech to The American Spectator’s 45th Anniversary Dinner on November 14, 2012.] Thank yo...
Administrative Hiring Binge Costs $229 Million Annually
Moderator Bob Schieffer was only partly right in a recent presidential debate when he said, “I think we all love teachers.” Decades-lo...
Oklahoma’s Pension Problems Are Worse than You Think
As we’ve pointed out numerous times in these pages, Oklahoma’s pension crisis is far worse than the official estimates. The official es...
It’s Time to Stop Taxpayer Funding of the Indian Museum
Findings in the recent performance audit of the Native American Cultural and Education Authority (NACEA) leave no doubt that it’s time t...
States have a choice on membership in organizations
Recent news that Maine Governor Paul LePage has chosen to discontinue Maine’s membership in the National Governors Association (NGA) sho...
It’s Time for Government Pension Reform in Oklahoma
Conservatives across Oklahoma must be asking themselves how it is possible that a government controlled by Republicans can’t pass govern...
Voting with Their Feet
We’ve looked at the income-tax evidence for more than two decades, with data dating back to 1960, and we’ve found that in any 10-year pe...
