Articles
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: More Medicaid not the answer
Much work is left to make sure Oklahomans can get affordable care. Policymakers have made those prospects better by avoiding the Medicaid expansion trap and focusing their energy on market-based, consumer-driven reforms that increase access and affordability.Michael Carnuccio | August 14, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Free Market Friday: A new way of funding
Most Oklahoma taxpayers have no idea how our schools are funded. That’s not surprising. Money flows to our schools from a variety of sources, each of which may pay based on different criteria.Michael Carnuccio | August 7, 2015
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Good Government
From the Heart
When the flag is flying and I’m singing along with the anthem, my heart wells up, I take a deep breath, and am thankful for a country I love and my ancestors who served it.Jason Reese | August 6, 2015
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Education
Toddler technocracy
Oklahoma is one of only a tiny handful of states in which the overwhelming majority of four-year-olds attend government-run pre-Kindergarten. Oklahomans ought to ask themselves if that aligns with who they are as a people and what they think is important for young children.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | August 1, 2015
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Education
How to Make the Government Pay for the Perfect Education for Your Kid
ESAs build on the very worthwhile voucher and scholarship option by enabling families to direct every single dollar in their child’s account to multiple providers and products. And they include solid accountability measures, including providing receipts for expenditures to those managing the ESA programs in state agencies.Lindsey M. Burke | August 1, 2015
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Agriculture
When Will Climate Scientists Say They Were Wrong?
Day after day, year after year, the hole that climate scientists have buried themselves in gets deeper and deeper. The longer that they wait to admit their overheated forecasts were wrong, the more they are going to harm all of science.Patrick J. Michaels | August 1, 2015
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Education
Apples to Onions: Liberal Think Tank’s Report Is Extremely Flawed
CBPP is certainly entitled to its “policy priorities”—higher taxes and increased government spending. But this report indeed “stretches the truth beyond the breaking point.”Steve Anderson | August 1, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Oklahoma Budget Writers Show Commitment to Education Funding
In today’s economy, employers will only expand in states that are up to the task of accommodating them. We must have high standards to broaden our base of educated workers and ensure that our students are college and career ready to meet that challenge. By doing so, we can promote the best policy to strengthen our schools.Brian Bingman | August 1, 2015
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Budget & Tax
Be Prepared: Federal-Funds Transparency Makes Sense for Oklahoma
A proposal to prepare the government of Oklahoma for emerging federal budget crises fell short in the 2015 session of the state Legislature. But it wasn’t for lack of trying, or support.Patrick B. McGuigan | August 1, 2015
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Education
ESAs are the next step in fulfilling Friedman’s vision
Milton Friedman, who would have turned 103 today, is best known as one of the world’s greatest economists. He received the Nobel Prize in 1974 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. But for those of us who work in public policy, his most important works are his seminal Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | July 31, 2015