Stephen Ellis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. His research areas include philosophy of economics, decision theory, philosophy of mind and ethics.
The Oklahoma income tax ‘wars’ have gone national! The latest…
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NOTE: This post has been updated to reflect slightly revised numbers in state aid funding for FY 2008 and FY 2012. The text has been corrected to correspond.
The FY 2013 budget agreement announced yesterday provides no increase in state…
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Will Oklahoma families pay higher or lower taxes under HB 3061, the tax plan agreed to last week by Governor Fallin and legislative leaders? The answer depends on a number of variables, including household income, family size, and whether or…
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Oklahoma Policy Institute released the following statement in response to the state budget deal announced today:
According to today’s budget agreement, appropriations for core services remain flat even though expenses continue to rise. That means we will fall further behind…
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In addition to an immediate cut in the top income tax rate from 5.25 to 4.8 percent, the tax plan agreed to last week by Governor Fallin and legislative leaders includes an automatic future tax cut tied tied to revenue…
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NOTE: This post has been updated as new information becomes available
Yesterday, the Governor and legislative leaders announced agreement on a ‘joint proposal for income tax reduction and tax code simplification’. (Click here for a summary and here for HB…
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Oklahoma Policy Institute released the following statement in response to the tax plan from Governor Fallin and Republican legislators:
We are glad to see that Governor Fallin and legislators have backtracked significantly from the most reckless tax cut proposals they…
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This post was written by Nick Johnson, Vice President for State Fiscal Policy with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This originally appeared on the Center’s Off the Charts blog and is reposted with permission.
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal…
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As reported in CapitolBeatOK, a group of 30 prominent business executives, civic leaders and philanthropists recently sent an open letter to the Governor, Speaker and Senate Pro Tem urging them not to adopt a trigger mechanism that would lead to…
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Gene Perry
May 16, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In all of the major income tax proposals this year (including the plan announced yesterday by Senate Republicans), the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been targeted for elimination. That’s strange, because lawmakers have made no clear argument for why we should lose this…
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