Articles
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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
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
Free Market Friday: Planned transparency
Recently released undercover videos show casual conversations about crushing the life from a tiny, unborn person. When the talk turns to calculating potential compensation for her harvested organs, even abortion advocates admit it’s disturbing. Many Americans are appalled to discover that their own tax dollars provide more than a half-billion dollars every year to the organization exposed in these videos.Michael Carnuccio | July 31, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Free Market Friday: Win-win for education
Some Oklahomans were disappointed this year when state lawmakers gave common education a standstill budget. They say public education is not adequately funded; a standstill means per-student spending will decrease.Michael Carnuccio | July 24, 2015
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Culture & the Family, Good Government
Free Market Friday: Helping the most vulnerable
The miracle of new life has come to the Carnuccio home this week. On Monday, my wife and our two sons were blessed with the newest addition to our family, a daughter. My daughter’s birth has inspired me to double-down on that which matters most and defines the family values and beliefs we hold dear.Michael Carnuccio | July 16, 2015
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Higher Education
Free Market Friday: Efficiency or bust
As Oklahoma legislators completed their budget deliberations this year, we heard the usual chorus from critics complaining that education was being shortchanged. Much criticism came from those in higher education, who perpetually demand more tax dollars and tuition increases.Michael Carnuccio | July 11, 2015
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Budget & Tax
OCPA officials tout federal-funds transparency
In a recent column in The Journal Record, law professor Andrew Spiropoulos lauded a proposal which “requires state agencies to publicly report the amount and nature of the federal funding they receive and, most importantly, the conditions they accept in exchange for the money.”Brandon Dutcher | July 9, 2015
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Budget & Tax
Oklahoma Needs Federal-Funds Transparency
It’s time to expand federal funds transparency in Oklahoma so that policymakers and the public can have the best information about state agency use of federal funds and so that we can be better prepared to provide for core services of government.Tom Newell & Greg Treat | July 1, 2015
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Good Government
MAKING THE MORAL CASE FOR FREE ENTERPRISE
Adam Smith. Friedrich Hayek. Milton Friedman. All legendary apostles of economic and political liberty. Now add Arthur Brooks to that pantheon, and you have The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Basic Books, 2012), a slim yet potent volume published in 2012 that gives us both blueprint and rallying cry in an era when many fear that the battle has already been lost.Mike Brake | July 1, 2015
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Agriculture
Untapped Potential in Oklahoma High-Value Crops
Oklahoma still has a very large agricultural sector that continues to provide a substantial contribution to the state’s fiscal diversification and stability.Steve Anderson | July 1, 2015