To view the messages Oklahomans posted to the Reagan Wall, click through the interactive presentation below. If you would like to submit...

Oklahomans focused on the final days of our legislative session may have missed the news from south of the Red River. Texas legislators ...

In the continuing public discussion about reducing Oklahoma’s personal income-tax rate, tax-cut opponents often argue that these tax cut...

I’ve lamented before that, just as President Barack Obama is the biggest government spender in world history, Oklahoma’s curren...

With credit to Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole, who recently compared the current struggle over the federal budget to a five-act drama, it...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Every year, the assumption among planners in most of state government is that public spending must increase over time....

Yesterday, OCPA released its FY-2014 Budget Book, which contains our recommendations for the state’s appropriated budget for the upcomin...

The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA)’s proposed state budget this year focuses on funding core functions of government. This bu...

“The entire premise of a market economy is that individuals, possessing better knowledge of their affairs, can allocate labor and capita...

The U.S. economy has recently suffered its deepest and most prolonged recession since the Great Depression. The fundamental causes of th...

The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services recently released the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the sta...

In a column published on Sunday in The Oklahoman, I discussed the continued growth in state spending (in particular, the skyroc...

On January 1, 2013, historic tax cuts were implemented in Kansas. Lawmakers in Nebraska and Louisiana are watching, with the chief exec...

As we’ve pointed out numerous times in these pages, Oklahoma’s pension crisis is far worse than the official estimates. The official es...

Recent news that Maine Governor Paul LePage has chosen to discontinue Maine’s membership in the National Governors Association (NGA) sho...

Throughout the country, pension reformers from across the political spectrum are protecting the taxpayers. The reforms in Rhode Island a...

Conservatives across Oklahoma must be asking themselves how it is possible that a government controlled by Republicans can’t pass govern...

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...

Cato Institute analyst Tad DeHaven, a former budget policy adviser to Sen. Tom Coburn, recently pointed out that state policymakers have...

When Jeff Colyer and I took office in January of 2011, tens of thousands fewer Kansans were working in private-sector jobs than a decade...