Budget & Tax

Quote of the Day

Name: Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Address: Oklahoma Council Of Public Affairs 1401 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, US
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January 19, 2009

"It's very easy to say if we had a 7 percent income tax today, our income tax revenues would be higher. Yeah, but guess what? We would have allocated those dollars in the last session and we would have still been faced with a significant budget shortfall, maybe even a bigger budget shortfall. We tend to make do with what we have."

-- Gov. Brad Henry, quoted today in The Oklahoman