October 2006 Volume 13 Number 10
- Taking Your Money, Lobbying for More
- October 01, 2006
- Oklahomans should be concerned about the good-ole-boy system at 23rd and Lincoln wherein bureaucrats and taxpayer-funded special-interest groups take your money and use it to lobby for more money. Read More >
- Subsidies for Political Advocacy Distort Democracy
- October 01, 2006
- A new OCPA piece tells what's wrong with having the government subsidize political advocacy? Read More >
- Tax Subsidies for Political Advocacy: An Unconstitutional Playing Field
- October 01, 2006
- "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." - From the Preamble to the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, adopted by the Virginia General Assembly on October 31, 1785 Most every student of American constitutional history knows that, in a New Year's Day letter in 1802 to t... Read More >
- Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying: Tax Users vs. Tax Payers
- October 01, 2006
- When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical," he likely had no idea that the practice would become commonplace at state capitols across the country. Unfortunately, lobbying with tax dollars is a growth industry. For example, in my home state of Texas t... Read More >
- OCPA Board Meeting Held in Tulsa
- October 01, 2006
- On September 7 and 8, members of OCPA's Board of Trustees, their spouses, and special guests met at the Post Oak Lodge in Tulsa. Trustee Daniel Zaloudek recommended the facility as an ideal location to host the first board meeting in the northeast part of our state. Thursday evening included a reception and dinner with Dr. J. Rufus Fears, a classics professor at the ... Read More >
- Quote Unquote
- October 01, 2006
- ?Adequacy clauses do not exist in state constitutions. Lawyers have construed adequacy as a loose legal standard from language that had a different meaning. ... That?s what lawyers do.? Hunter College professor Joseph P. Viteritti, an expert in education policy and state and local ;vernance ?Oklahoma voters must wake up to the reality that there are powerful forces out t... Read More >
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