By:
Gene Perry
October 9, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Now that same-sex marriage is legal in Oklahoma, there’s one big question on everyone’s mind: how is it going to affect state tax revenue?
Okay, maybe that’s not on everyone’s mind, but researchers at Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Western Kentucky Universities…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 1, 2014 // Updated: January 23, 2023
Almost without fail, any news story related to money for Oklahoma schools will attract commenters bitterly pointing out they thought the lottery was supposed to solve our education funding problems. So why hasn’t the lottery gotten Oklahoma out of the bottom rungs…
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By:
David Blatt
September 8, 2014 // Updated: May 1, 2019
For some 12,000 state employees, the long wait for a pay raise has finally ended. Legislation passed this last session provided selected workers a raise of 6.25 percent or more, effective July 1 (or in the case of state troopers,…
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By:
Guest
September 2, 2014 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol.
A recent article by Journal Record columnist Marie Price reported on a meeting of the Oklahoma…
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By:
Guest
August 14, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Michael Leachman is the Director of State Fiscal Research with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This post previously appeared on the Center’s Off the Charts blog.
The meaning of Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of Kansas’ credit rating,…
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By:
David Blatt
August 13, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved SQ 713, which increased the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products while eliminating the state and local sales tax on these products. The new revenues from the increased taxes were dedicated to a…
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Is a bill that adjusts the tax rates on production of oil and gas a “revenue bill” under the terms of the Oklahoma Constitution? This is the question for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to decide in a challenge filed by…
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By:
Gene Perry
July 31, 2014 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Oklahoma’s state budget was thrown into turmoil this year when much less money came to the General Revenuef fund than was expected. For the full year, General Revenue was 4.8 percent below the estimate; if the shortfall had reached 5…
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By:
Mark Lash
July 23, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Mark Lash is a retired federal employee who follows Oklahoma policymaking. He has previously written about the Quality Jobs Program for the OK Policy Blog.
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According to a New York Times report, state and local…
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The state’s new fiscal year began on July 1st with most state agencies funded slightly worse than they had originally expected.
Last month, OK Policy broke the story that this year’s General Appropriations (GA) bill diverted $7.9 million out of…
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