Articles
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Budget & Tax
A Billion Dollars of Unnoticed Taxation
Over the past two years, I have been taking note of state government's hidden spending.Jason Murphey | April 1, 2009
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Budget & Tax
In Defense of Oklahoma's Tax-Hike Supermajority Requirement
State legislation is often described as an expression of majority rule. However, the legislative process contains steps that seem designed to hinder spontaneous expressions of majority sentiment.Joseph D. Henchman | April 1, 2009
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Higher Education
OU: Pay no attention to that article on our website
Public opinion surveys in this state consistently show that somewhere in the vicinity of 18 percent of Oklahomans described themselves as somewhat or strongly liberal, while 67 percent called themselves somewhat or strongly conservative.Brandon Dutcher | March 17, 2009
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Budget & Tax
Feds can't bail us out forever
No one know for sure just how much the federal government can continue to borrow before investors get indigestion from buying too many Treasuries. Unfortunately, this data suggests that we may just find out.J. Scott Moody | March 11, 2009
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Good Government
It's Our Liberty, Stupid
A few years back, Justice Antonin Scalia said of a bad U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion: "Most bad precedents come as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. This one comes as a wolf."Patrick B. McGuigan | March 3, 2009
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Budget & Tax
Oklahoma's Dwindling Private-Sector Economy
Personal income is an important economic measure of a state's well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state's residents are able to purchase more goods and services such as homes, cars, education, and health care.J. Scott Moody & Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | March 3, 2009
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Good Government
The Seen and the Unseen
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine-the special pleading of selfish interests.Henry Hazlitt | March 3, 2009
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Good Government
Crowding Out Oklahoma's Private Sector
Government gets its money by either taxing the private sector or borrowing from the private sector. In extreme cases, the government can print its own money.J. Scott Moody & Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | March 3, 2009
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Good Government
A tale of two management teams
Should the unsuccessful regulate the successful?Bruce N. Shortt | March 1, 2009
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Education
Making the Dream Real: Betty Mason's Choice
Betty Mason, public school educator for decades and former superintendent of the Oklahoma City public school system, is spending her "retirement" years as superintendent of St. John Christian Heritage Academy.Patrick B. McGuigan | March 1, 2009