Budget & Tax
Brandon Dutcher | December 6, 2024
How fast does Oklahoma’s state government spend your money?
Brandon Dutcher
According to the State of Oklahoma’s most recent “Annual Comprehensive Financial Report,” total annual expenditures are $28,345,374,000.
With the idea of a DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) starting to spread to states, and with Oklahoma looking to eliminate its income tax, here’s hoping OCPA’s spendometer will be a useful conversation starter.
How Fast Does
Oklahoma’s State Government
Spend Your Money?
$28,345,374,000 per year
$77,658,558.90 per day$3,235,773.29 per hour
$53,929.55 per minute
$898.83 per second
Brandon Dutcher
Senior Vice President
Brandon Dutcher is OCPA’s senior vice president. Originally an OCPA board member, he joined the staff in 1995. Dutcher received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oklahoma. He received a master’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in public policy from Regent University. Dutcher is listed in the Heritage Foundation Guide to Public Policy Experts, and is editor of the book Oklahoma Policy Blueprint, which was praised by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as “thorough, well-informed, and highly sophisticated.” His award-winning articles have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, WORLD magazine, Forbes.com, Mises.org, The Oklahoman, the Tulsa World, and 200 newspapers throughout Oklahoma and the U.S. He and his wife, Susie, have six children and live in Edmond.