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- Cathy Burden and Elaine Hobson: SB 834 – Empowering public schools or dismantling them? (May 2009);
- Clay Pope: Protecting our natural resources must be a priority (June 2009);
- Karin Brandenburg and Wanda deBruler: Will Oklahoma be first to discriminate against military spouses in divorces? (Sept. 2009);
- Laura Dempsey-Polan: Medicaid in-home support programs: getting more for less (Oct. 2009);
- Jeff Alderman: Health care perspectives – Rethinking health reform, with a bigger brush (March 2010);
- Tom Daxon: Putting tax expenditures on the right TRACC (March 2010);
- Amy Santee: Turning The Tide On Female Incarceration (March 2010);
- Valerie Andrews: Cuts to substance abuse services will mean higher costs and worse outcomes (April 2010);
- Sara Waggoner: Can emergency food programs continue to meet growing needs? (April 2010);
- Adam Kupetsky: Regulate me! (April 2010);
- John Gajda: State budget cuts will impact people with developmental disabilities (May 2010);
- Michael Lipsky: ‘The public service’ includes state and local workers (May 2010);
- John Thompson: An Obamamaniac’s critique of the President’s educational policies (June 2010) and Ready or not, the educational revolution is now (July 2010);
- Connie Cronley: Feeding the hungry, tearing down gates (June 2010);
- Brad Byers: Health care reform: the battle between fact and myth (July 2010).
TAXES – TAXES – TAXES – TAXES – TAXES – TAXES – TAXES
The only way to control government spending to limit the amount of tax money that can be taken from its citizens.
While Oklahoma was under Democrat control, Oklahoma has lost four seats in Congress. Other States have out-grown Oklahoma and these other States do not have personal income tax.
Totally Eliminate State Personal Income Tax
Eliminate Personal Income Tax Totally to be replaced with a State Payroll Tax of one percent. Actually it is a two percent tax. One Percent to be withheld from the employees paycheck to be matched by One Percent from the Employer.
Keep the tax system SIMPLE! Eliminate the need for the average Oklahoman to file any tax forms on April 15th.
Profit from sale of assets, real estate and investments to be address as small business-personal tax program.
Eliminate the property tax and personal property tax on homeowners and raise the Sales Tax
Illegal aliens are not going to pay property tax or income tax but they will pay sales tax.
If the numbers of illegal aliens are correct then we need to change our tax system by eliminate the property tax and personal property tax on homeowners and raising the Sales Tax.
Oklahoma has 77 counties and we have over 150 different sales tax rates
http://www.tax.ok.gov/publicat/stn0409.pdf – this is very anti-business friendly.
Sales tax should be collected on SERVICES at the SAME RATE as PRODUCTS. The Butcher and the Candle-maker collect sales tax so should the Barber ie labor.
Besides the people of Oklahoma will no longer be paying personal income tax or property tax. Especially need sales tax on food so everyone gets to pay some tax.
Would have to guarantee the schools and city-county government a minimum dollar amount.
Statewide sales tax of Ten Percent (10%) Maximum. Keep the program simple, 10% was good enough for GOD, 10% should be good enough for the government.
Allocate the Sales Tax as follows:
That 1% sales tax be earmarked towards EDUATION;
That 1% sales tax be earmarked towards ROADS;
That 2% sales tax be earmarked to County Governments ;
That 3% sales tax be earmarked to City Governments;
That 3% sales tax be earmarked to State Government;
That is a total of 10% MAXIMUM Statewide Sales Tax
Put Government on commission.
With this type of tax system, if the schools, City, County and State Governments wants more money to spend, they must encourage businesses to move to Oklahoma and current businesses to expand in Oklahoma.
This would get the State Government out of micro-managing the daily life of the taxpayers. It is called FREEDOM!
An advantage given by the government to one person means an unfair dis-advantage to all other Americans. Our Founding Fathers believed that small government and less taxes means more freedom.
Respectfully,
BOB MOORE
Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1683 , Lawton , OK 73502
Phone 580-695-0331 – Fax 270-964-1831
Webpage http://bobmooreoklahoma.gobot.com/
Email: bobmooreoklahoma@yahoo.com
The Liberty Plan is the answer to limited federal government.
The only way to control government spending to limit the amount of tax money that can be taken from its citizens.
The GOP needs a plan to talk about now and for the next election. The Liberty Plan must be a Constitutional Amendment!
Constitutional Amendment so the rates can not go up.
Step one: Eliminate the Personal Income Tax TOTALLY.
The Liberty Plan will replace thousands of pages of income tax rules and regulations and eliminate the fear of April 15th to be replaced by a few pages.
FICA tax is over 15% of the employees’ paycheck. Federal Courts have ruled the FICA is a tax not a retirement fund. The Federal Government needs to be honest and declare that FICA tax goes to the general fund to pay for government spending programs.
Re-name FICA tax to the Liberty Plan.
The Liberty Plan:
1. Eliminate Personal federal income tax totally.
2. The Federal Tax Payroll Deduction Program shall be (20%) Twenty Percent “Maximum” of which (10%) Ten Percent to be withheld from the wage-earners’ pay to be matched by (10%) Ten Percent from the Employer.
3. Restrict how the money shall be allocated, such as:
a) 2% National Defense;
b) 8% to Social Security (Medicare, Seniors, etc.)
c) and 10% for the other spending programs.
A total of 20% of the wage-earners’ salary will go to the Federal government.
Benefits to the federal government:
1. Treat everyone equally.
2. The more you make the more you pay – that is fairness.
3. Easy to collect this tax -payroll deduction is the most efficient way to collect taxes – same system already in place in all 50 states.
4. Able to plan for the future with steady income.
5. No more fees or taxes on individuals from the federal government.
6. First dollar of everyone wages is being taxes and collected every (2) two weeks instead of once a year with all the deductions
The Liberty Plan must be a Constitution Amendment so future Congress will not change or raise the tax rate.
This type of system would result in no forms, no worry and a much smaller I.R.S. No tax forms to file each year. No tax credits to be given or taken away by the Federal government. No increase or decrease in the tax rate.
This would get the Federal Government out of micro-managing the daily life of the taxpayers. It is called FREEDOM!
Yes I have more details on other tax reforms http://bob-moore.blogspot.com/
An advantage given by the government to one person means an unfair dis-advantage to all other Americans. Our Founding Fathers believed that small government and less taxes means more freedom.
Respectfully,
Bob Moore
Bob Moore
P.O. Box 1683
Lawton, OK 73502
Phone 580-695-0331 – Fax 270-964-1831
Webpage http://bob-moore.blogspot.com
Webpage http://www.bobmoore.gobot.com
Email: oklahomataxpayer@yahoo.com