Articles
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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
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Budget & Tax
Free Market Friday: Upsetting the status quo
Invention and innovation are disruptive. Just ask the makers of typewriters, rotary-dial telephones, or –increasingly – desktop computers. Economist Joseph Schumpeter called this process creative destruction.Michael Carnuccio | September 5, 2014
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Budget & Tax
Transportation regulations: dangerous and ineffective
Oklahoma prides itself as a place where people are free to do business. We should know better than to increase regulations in the name of “fairness” and a false kind of “competition”.Lauren Aragon | September 4, 2014
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Education
Educator says Oklahoma has ‘some really bad teachers.’ How do we get more good ones?
The 2014 Education Next survey, overseen by the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, was released last month. Among other things, the survey asked Americans to grade the teachers in their local schools on the quality of their work.Brandon Dutcher | September 2, 2014
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Education
Oklahoma GOP Voters Prefer School Choice Over Same Old, Same Old
Two all-but-sainted gentlemen have stepped up to lead an Oklahoma exodus. Although neither has put it this way, “Let our children go” could be their mantra. These guys believe that in education policy, taxpayer resources should follow children, not bureaucratic dictates.Patrick B. McGuigan | September 2, 2014
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Education
OSF Helping Students Find the Place Where They Learn Best
The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) recently held its annual Parental Choice Symposium in New Orleans—and in Tampa. I was invited to the symposium in my capacity as a board member of the newly formed Opportunity Scholarship Fund (OSF), which uses contributions creditable against state income tax to provide scholarships to private schools for low-income kids.Charlie Daniels | September 2, 2014
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Higher Education
Tuition-free College for Oklahomans?
Do we want to make college tuition-free for Oklahomans and simultaneously reduce government spending? Amazingly, this option is possible today because of the emergence of high-quality, low-cost college.Vance H. Fried | September 2, 2014
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Budget & Tax
Paul Krugman: Wrong on Taxes, Wrong on Kansas
Looking at the performance of the nine states with no income taxes versus the nine states with the highest income taxes, the performance results are fairly clear: no-income-tax states are vastly outperforming their high-tax counterparts and the national average.Will Freeman | September 2, 2014
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Law & Principles
State by State is the Right Way to Elect a President
The American Founders intended for presidents to be elected by a state-by-state process, which is how we have done it since George Washington. John Koza’s National Popular Vote plan would throw all that out, diminishing the voice of Oklahomans and undermining our constitutional system of states.Trent England | September 2, 2014
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Education
Bigotry bites into scholarship for disabled students
Last week, an Oklahoma County District Court decided that a program to help pay for disabled children to access private education cannot be used for religious schools.Trent England | August 31, 2014