Articles
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Budget & Tax, Education
A Textbook Case of Misplaced Priorities
Yes, it may present a management challenge, but this is the sort of problem the Heavener superintendent is paid $98,022 annually to solve.Brandon Dutcher | September 19, 2014
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Education
Statewide School Choice Program Would Benefit Wage-Earners
Every child in America should have the same educational opportunity as do President Obama’s children. They enjoy school choice.Mark Costello | September 19, 2014
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Education
Policy Ideas for Safeguarding Our Children's Futures
Given that children are the key to a prosperous economy, what lessons should our political leaders always keep in mind when crafting public policy? Allow me to suggest three.Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The Future of School Choice
Nonetheless, I still think it’s our battle to lose. Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham jail, didn’t think he was losing. He knew he was winning. Never mind that the segregationists had all the money, all the laws, all the hoses, all the dogs, and all the guns. King had a just cause and an entrepreneurial spirit.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | September 19, 2014
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Education
The soul of moderation? Black Oklahomans for school choice
Now that I have your attention: Do black children and all children in American schools deserve choices?Patrick B. McGuigan | September 19, 2014
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Law & Principles
Scripture and the state: Maximal or minimal government?
Through the years in the pages of Perspective, various economists, political scientists, accountants, and others have made the case for low taxation and limited government. We’ve never had a theologian weigh in on the issue, but with certain voices on the religious left calling for high taxes and big government, we are pleased to publish this article by pastor and author David W. Hall.David W. Hall | September 19, 2014
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Education
Another year, another wake-up call
To repeat: school choice improves public schools. Rather than once again hitting the “more government spending” snooze button, policymakers should respond to this latest wake-up call with robust school-choice policies.Brandon Dutcher | September 17, 2014
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Budget & Tax
Still waiting for transparency
We are still waiting for transparency from health related state agencies and hopefully these state agencies will follow the lead of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Board of Investors as it relates to transparency. Oklahomans’ health depends upon it.Jonathan Small | September 16, 2014
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Good Government
Free Market Friday: Let us never forget
As a young man, Abraham Lincoln worried that the generation who had fought the American Revolution was passing away. Those veterans were a living history that could be read and understood alike by all, he said in a speech to a civic group in Springfield, Illinois.Michael Carnuccio | September 12, 2014
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Budget & Tax
Tax Cuts in Oklahoma and Kansas Fuel Small Businesses
Over the last decade, Oklahoma has been one of the most aggressive states in the country when it comes to reducing the burden of taxes on taxpayers. Since 2002, the top marginal individual income tax rate has fallen significantly—by 22 percent—to 5.25 percent from 6.75 percent.J. Scott Moody & Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | September 12, 2014