Articles
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Culture & the Family
Hope for foster kids
At any given time, there are several thousand Oklahoma children in foster care, often due to abuse or neglect.Jonathan Small | July 14, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Rating agencies used as weapons against taxpayers
It’s no secret that Oklahoma is hurting because Oklahomans are hurting.David Autry | July 14, 2017
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Law & Principles
A tribute to State Question 640
As lawmakers navigated through the final days of the 2017 legislative session, with debates over budget gaps and proposed tax increases, some who love the idea of soaking the taxpayers for all they can get bemoaned the existence of one of the most important constitutional safeguards in state history: State Question 640, passed overwhelmingly by the voters in 1992.Jonathan Small | July 13, 2017
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Budget & Tax
A closer look at S&P’s bond rating downgrade of Oklahoma
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Oklahoma government debt a notch.Jonathan Small & William Freeland | July 13, 2017
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Budget & Tax
An analysis and critique of the recent S&P bond rating downgrade of Oklahoma
Standard & Poor's (S&P) recent downgrade of Oklahoma state government debt should be considered with a healthy degree of skepticism.Jonathan Small & William Freeland | July 13, 2017
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Education
School choice and segregation
If you want to make sure schools are segregated, the quickest and easiest way to do it is to force families into schools based on their ZIP codes.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | July 12, 2017
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Budget & Tax
What drives income tax revenues: Tax rates or economic growth?
Oklahoma’s marginal personal income tax rate has been reduced to 5% from 5.65% in 2007. Over those ten years, revenue from the personal income tax has fluctuated.Curtis Shelton | July 10, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Income taxes & team success
Want to help the Thunder win an NBA championship? Eliminate the state income tax!Mike Brake | July 10, 2017
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Education
Oklahoma education spending continues to rise
The idea that public schools in the United States in 2017 are being starved of what they need to fulfill their task, given the history of public education funding, is more than a stretch.Byron Schlomach, Ph.D. | July 10, 2017
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Higher Education
Regents miss opportunity
The various boards of regents that govern Oklahoma’s colleges and universities have approved increases in tuition and fees for the coming academic year.Jonathan Small | July 7, 2017