April 2006 Volume 13 Number 4

Tax Cuts Will Boost Oklahoma Economy

April 01, 2006

The Oklahoma state legislature may finally provide some tax relief for Oklahoma citizens, including lowering the top income tax rate to 4.9 percent and eliminating the estate (death) tax over a three-year period. These tax reforms are long overdue. While the arguments are not new, it is important to understand the rationale for these tax reforms. In several O... Read More >

Give Pay Raises to Good Teachers, Not Bad Ones

April 01, 2006

Oklahoma has about 40,000 teachers (about 35,000 in full-time equivalents), many of whom are quite talented. On any measure of this group (height, weight, teaching ability, etc.) we would probably find a wide distribution. You would be well served to have your child taught by a teacher whose skills fall in the middle or upper end of this distribution. Unfortunately... Read More >

OCPA Proposes 'A State Budget That Respects Your Family Budget'

April 01, 2006

Every year the governor submits for consideration an executive budget and asks citizens and state legislators to give serious consideration to his recommendations. Again this year, OCPA has likewise submitted a proposed state budget for consideration. You may recall that in the current fiscal year the politicians at 23rd and Lincoln grew the government by a whop... Read More >

Oklahoma Union Membership Declining

April 01, 2006

Having good information about union membership can be very important in the public policy realm. When union officials are seeking public policies that serve their special interest they frequently, shall we say, exaggerate. They know that if they can convince politicians that union strength is greater than it actually is, the politicians will be more likely to cooperat... Read More >

Stopping the Conservative Crack-Up

April 01, 2006

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." That Dickensian description of Europe during the French Revolution holds true for American conservatives today. In the modern American edition, though, the two cities of our tale are not Paris and London. They're "Washington, D.C." and "everywhere else." Beyond the Washington beltway, these are the best of time... Read More >

Cash for College

April 01, 2006

On March 14 the Goldwater Institute, an Arizona think tank that favors market-based solutions to public policy issues, released a study that education leaders and policy makers in Oklahoma should read and consider. Entitled "Cash for College: Bringing Free-Market Reform to Higher Education," the paper argues that Arizona's higher education system would benefit fro... Read More >

Show Me the Choices

April 01, 2006

Education policy analyst Dan Lips offers insight into a legislative battlefront in Missouri. Read More >

Author Series Proves Leadership Matters

April 01, 2006

Our idea to host a series of appearances of authors of newly published works has proven to be a great success. We began in February with author Steven F. Hayward talking about his book Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders. The event brought people from different political persuasions to our headquarters to hear about the remarkably simi... Read More >

Quote Unquote

April 01, 2006

?The ;d who looked out upon the earth and pronounced it ;od designed us to glorify Him as free men and not as serfs.? The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 1999 ?In a nutshell, I?m pro-choice. It [abortion] is one of the most intensely personal issues and should be decided by a woman, her doctor, her husband, if she has one, and her ;d. I don?t believe the ;vernment shou... Read More >

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