Articles
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Budget & Tax
Lessons from Illinois
Oklahoma just completed, with much gnashing of teeth and moaning, a budget year with a shortfall of nearly $1 billion.Jonathan Small | June 16, 2017
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Education
In many districts moving to four-day week, superintendent pay has increased
To reduce spending, nearly 100 Oklahoma school districts have adopted four-day-a-week schedules.Jay Chilton | June 15, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Lessons from Connecticut
Oklahoma is in a recession compared to 2014, after more than 21,800 energy and manufacturing jobs have been cut, when Oklahomans have lost more than $13 billion in taxable income and reduced their purchases subject to sales and use tax by $4.1 billion just to survive.Jonathan Small | June 9, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Blue state blues
The truth is that higher taxes can mean deeper budget holes, especially when those taxes target volatile sources of revenue.Trent England | June 6, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Getting real about government spending
From the first day of the 2017 legislative session until its closing moments, most lobbyists and many politicians told us our state has a structural deficit leaving it in dire need of new recurring revenue, which is to say, major tax increases.Jonathan Small | June 2, 2017
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Higher Education
Oklahoma higher education spending continues to rise
Total spending has increased so much in higher education that the legislature could zero out its appropriation altogether—saving more than $800 million, closing nearly all of the shortfall—and it would simply return this part of state government to slightly more than its 2013 spending level.Trent England | June 1, 2017
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Higher Education
China plants flag in Norman
Why is the University of Oklahoma advancing the interests of one of America’s global adversaries? OU should close its Confucius Institute as soon as possible.Mike Brake | June 1, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Education
Does school choice expand the welfare state?
Congratulations, Oklahoma! By pursuing school choice, you did the impossible—you turned some big-government progressives into radical libertarians.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | June 1, 2017
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Education
By a margin of 5 to 1, Oklahomans say let teachers vote on unions
What do Oklahomans think of letting teachers vote on unions?Brandon Dutcher | June 1, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Statement on Legislature passing state budget
The Legislature deserves credit for passing a budget that minimizes damaging tax increases on Oklahomans compared to what was called for at the start of session.Jonathan Small | May 26, 2017