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Eliminating the Income Tax Would Help Oklahoma Entrepreneurs
Previously in these pages we have used a powerful new database of Oklahoma’s businesses—the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Da...
Ranking Oklahoma’s Economy
Over the last few years, a veritable cottage industry has arisen ranking states on any number of issues. The upside of these rankings is...
Why Are Oklahoma Lawmakers Funding a Big-Government Lobbying Organi...
With Oklahoma government spending at an all-time high (see chart on page 11), the time has come to set priorities and to exercise spendi...
Oklahomans Embrace Income-Tax Cuts, Spending Cuts
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...
Oklahoma Income-Tax Phaseout Would Boost Growth
As policymakers across America look for ways to bolster economic growth, they are increasingly considering changes in tax policy. Lawmak...
OCPA Projects Billions in Potential Savings
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) has released an outline of what its analysts deem wasteful state government spending. The ...
Who’s Responsible Now?
Legislation currently making its way through the process would reduce and eventually phase out Oklahoma’s personal income tax. Economis...
Oklahoma House Republicans Press Income-Tax Phaseout, Hundreds of M...
On March 12, a contingent of nine Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives discussed their advocacy of legislation ai...
Oklahoma Leads on Income-Tax Repeal
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...
Oklahoma Income-Tax Phaseout Would Benefit Families
As the country slowly puts the “Great Recession” behind it, American families are still struggling with financial difficulties. Some fin...
Policymakers Should Craft a State Budget that Respects Your Family ...
With the legislative session now in its second month, state lawmakers are in the process of putting together a budget for Fiscal Year (F...
A Clash of Visions—In a Battle that Matters
The Great Recession of 2008-10 put in serious doubt longstanding assumptions that the overall tax burden on American taxpayers must incr...
Economics 101
Economics is all about incentives. Because people really do care about after-tax income, pro-growth economic policies really do matter....
Concerned About People? Then Set Them Free
As we celebrate Black History Month this month, I can’t help but think of an e-mail OCPA recently received. “If you guys were more conce...
Oklahoma Government Spending Is at an All-Time High
Every year the Oklahoma Office of State Finance, where I previously served as a budget analyst, prepares the Comprehensive Annual Financ...
Taking Your Money, Lobbying for More
[Editor’s note: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves,” Thomas Jeffers...
Oklahoma Losing Taxpayers to No-Income-Tax States
As we pointed out in these pages in April 2010, migration data show that Oklahoma has become somewhat of a magnet in recent years. We fo...
OCPA to Outline Path to Effective Workers’ Comp Reform
As observers of Oklahoma’s public-policy scene are keenly aware, the field of workers’ compensation reform is littered with the remains ...
Laffer Outlines Plan for Phaseout of Oklahoma Income Tax
On November 29 Dr. Arthur Laffer—the keynote speaker at a joint meeting of three Oklahoma City civic clubs (Kiwanis, Lions, and Rotary)—...
Income-Tax Phaseout Would Create Economic Boom
Oklahoma has the opportunity to establish itself as America’s premier destination for economic freedom by completely phasing out the sta...
