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Budget & Tax
Free Market Friday: Raise salaries, not taxes
For the sake of teachers, students, their families, the most vulnerable among us and future opportunity for all Oklahomans, we should not raise taxes. The tax increase would catapult Oklahoma to the highest state and local average sales tax rate in the country.Michael Carnuccio | October 30, 2015
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Good Government
Free Market Friday: Lessons from Koch
Michael Carnuccio | October 29, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Mandate ill-advised
During the 2015 legislative session, Oklahoma policymakers pursued pro-patient and pro-growth health care reforms. The reforms removed bureaucratic barriers for state and education employee health care and protected the rights of doctors and patients.Michael Carnuccio | October 24, 2015
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Law & Principles
Free Market Friday: Solving the Blaine problem
The Oklahoma Supreme Court got it wrong when it said putting the monument on public property is unconstitutional. After all, our state constitution begins with the words: “Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty.” Are we to believe that the constitution itself is unconstitutional?Michael Carnuccio | October 9, 2015
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Law & Principles
OCPA Houses Ten Commandments Monument
OCPA is pleased to provide a home for the Ten Commandments Monument while lawmakers pursue legislative solutions that allow it to be returned to the Capitol grounds.Michael Carnuccio | October 6, 2015
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Budget & Tax
Free Market Friday: Common sense and pensions
About a decade ago, the outlook for Oklahoma’s six defined-benefit retirement plans was bleak. Decades of fiscal irresponsibility had put Oklahoma’s government employment pensions in some of the worst conditions in the country.Michael Carnuccio | October 3, 2015
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Free Market Friday: Serving those who serve
After more than 13 years of war, almost every American knows the challenges faced by our men and women in uniform. However, far fewer think about challenges facing the growing number of service members transitioning into civilian life.Michael Carnuccio | September 26, 2015
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Criminal Justice
Free Market Friday: Doing justice
When a person gets convicted of a crime, how much time should he or she spend in prison? When talking about Oklahoma’s criminal justice system, how do we define and measure success?Michael Carnuccio | September 18, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Children are suffering
What is it that is distracting from teaching well the core foundations of reading, writing and arithmetic? How can common education, higher education and lawmakers better align resources and incentives so students and teachers have the best opportunity to succeed? If we really care about children, their families and teachers, then we will answer the tough questions.Michael Carnuccio | September 11, 2015
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Health Care
Free Market Friday: Some abuse program for the poor
While accounts of the lives negatively affected by the numerous failed promises of the Affordable Care Act mount each day, an alarming story of abuse of a program (which was expanded by the ACA) intended for the poor has gone largely unnoticed.Michael Carnuccio | September 4, 2015
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