September 2005 Volume 12 Number 9

Education's Real Costs

September 01, 2005

According to official state government reports, the per-pupil expenditure in Oklahoma's public schools in 2003 (the latest year for which data are available) was $6,429. Unfortunately, that figure is not even close enough for government work. In a newly released study, in which we computed all expenditures that would be included on a regular financial statemen... Read More >

Oklahoma Is Ready for TABOR

September 01, 2005

If any state in the Union is ready for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), it is Oklahoma, says a new piece by Dick Armey published in today's Oklahoman. Read More >

Free Choice for Workers

September 01, 2005

We have heard Lord Acton?s famous saying, ?Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,? so often that we?re apt to forget why it?s true. When some people can command others ? the meaning of power ? the human tendency is for those with power to start using the others as pawns. Even well-meaning people with power in their hands are apt to use it in their... Read More >

Property and the Founders

September 01, 2005

Read the testimony of OCPA Adjunct Scholar Bruce Newman, given before the Oklahoma task force on the issue of eminent domain. Read More >

Health Care Cost-Shifting Hurts Us All

September 01, 2005

As children, one of the first stories we hear of our nation's fight for freedom is the story of the Boston Tea Party. It was simply a rebellion of the colonists against a tax in which they were not represented in the decision to be taxed. Think that was the last of it? How would you feel if you were taxed because you were ill or trying to stay in good health? For s... Read More >

How Low Can They Go?

September 01, 2005

In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels famously called for "free education for all children in public schools." They didn't bother to conceal their scorn for "the bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child," which they dubbed "disgusting." Unfortunately, the trendline in Oklahoma would bring smiles ... Read More >

New Study Examines the Real Costs of Education

September 01, 2005

One purpose of a "think tank" is to examine the prevailing wisdom and see whether it stands up under scrutiny. At a recent press conference, OCPA unveiled a new study, Education in Oklahoma: The Real Costs. Reporters present seemed struck by the revelation that instead of the official governmental reports indicating per-pupil expenditures in FY-2003 of $6,429, th... Read More >

Quote Unquote

September 01, 2005

?The broader gain is with a group in Oklahoma City called the OCPA.? Oklahoma state treasurer Scott Meacham, speaking August 12 to a group of Cleveland County Democrats regarding the forthcoming state tax rebates ?I?d put off elementary school if I had my way. I am not a great believer in school. School is primarily an institution for the perpetuation of adolescence. The ... Read More >

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