Articles
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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
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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