Articles
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Budget & Tax
Free Market Friday: Raise salaries, not taxes
For the sake of teachers, students, their families, the most vulnerable among us and future opportunity for all Oklahomans, we should not raise taxes. The tax increase would catapult Oklahoma to the highest state and local average sales tax rate in the country.Michael Carnuccio | October 30, 2015
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Good Government
Free Market Friday: Lessons from Koch
Michael Carnuccio | October 29, 2015
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Law & Principles
What the Electoral College Can Teach Us About the Constitution
The constitutional process for presidential elections is often misunderstood. That is unsurprising, since many of the Framers were at first unsure how it would work. Yet the history of the Electoral College—both its origin and its operation—offers lessons about the Constitution and how to defend it.Trent England | October 28, 2015
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Health Care
How to Help Oklahoma’s Rural Hospitals
How bad is the situation with Oklahoma hospitals? Rural hospitals are under financial siege and are facing extreme difficulty in recruiting and retaining physicians to the rural areas.Steve Anderson | October 28, 2015
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Good Government
The for-profit nightmare before Christmas
If there’s one thing the government education blob knows it hates, it’s “profit. What does the education establishment always advocate? More spending.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | October 28, 2015
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Education
Evidence Shortage for Teacher Shortage
For the United States as a whole, we see that there are fewer pupils per teacher today than at almost any time in the past 50 years. Put the other way, we currently have more teachers per pupil than we’ve had in the past.Andrew J. Coulson | October 28, 2015
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Education
A Closer Look at Oklahoma’s Teacher Shortage
Talk of a pending teacher shortage comes every decade. While the talk rarely has translated into disaster, there’s no question that it causes districts and school boards to panic.Kate Walsh | October 28, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Mandate ill-advised
During the 2015 legislative session, Oklahoma policymakers pursued pro-patient and pro-growth health care reforms. The reforms removed bureaucratic barriers for state and education employee health care and protected the rights of doctors and patients.Michael Carnuccio | October 24, 2015
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Law & Principles
Free Market Friday: Solving the Blaine problem
The Oklahoma Supreme Court got it wrong when it said putting the monument on public property is unconstitutional. After all, our state constitution begins with the words: “Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty.” Are we to believe that the constitution itself is unconstitutional?Michael Carnuccio | October 9, 2015
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Law & Principles
Blaine Amendment, Oklahoma Supreme Court threaten more than monuments
The Oklahoma Constitution does not ban religious ideas or symbols from public spaces. Neither does the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court's Ten Commandment decision therefore threatens much more than a single monument.Trent England | October 7, 2015