Every school district when it says ‘Where has our funding gone?’ can say it’s gone into the pockets of horizontal drillers. Every prison guard who hasn’t been able to get a raise can point to the same thing.
-Oklahoma Policy Institute Executive Director David Blatt, speaking about tax breaks for oil and gas drilling that have ballooned to cost Oklahoma more than $250 million this year (Source: http://bit.ly/1fxIrSq)