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Tax Cuts

  • Just Raise Taxes

    Being fiscally conservative requires making a sound national budget and raising the revenue to fund our nation’s needs. Since few Congressmen are willing to vote to cut pet projects, and perhaps lose their own, it leaves us with just one alternative: ” Just raise taxes”. Read more

  • Bits and Pieces 14: Will Rogers on Trickle-down Theory

    Will Rogers was skeptical about the trickle-down theory, and he had it much more correctly than biased economists such as Art Laffer. Read more

  • More on ALEC: Beware the influence of ALEC in Oklahoma

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has a great influence on many states’ politics, but many have heard little about the organization. ALEC hides its membership and its funding sources, and it operates as an educational organization to escape lobbying restrictions. Many of ALEC’s “model laws” claim to promote freedom, fairness, and reform, but the… Read more

  • Bits and Pieces: ALEC at Work in the Oklahoma Legislature

    Brian Bingman, president pro tem of the Oklahoma Senate, states in a readers forum article how proud he is of what the legislature has been able to accomplish. Many of those “accomplishments” benefit ALEC’s corporate members and the Legislative members campaign donations, but in the end they will hurt Oklahoma and its citizens. Read more

  • Alternate Universe Discovered at Oklahoma Capitol

    Recent research now suggests that multiple universes may have been formed during the Big Bang. The author has discovered evidence that an alternate universes may exist here in Oklahoma. You may explore an alternate universe, just call the Oklahoma Governor’s office about Medicaid expansion. Read more

  • More on ALEC

    The American Legislative Exchange Council is an organization that claims to provide model legislation for our state and national legislatures. Actually, is a secretive organization that lets corporate and special interests make laws at the state level which furthers their interests, often at the expense of ordinary citizens. Read more

  • Aristotle, the Pope, and Income Inequality

    Aristotle argued that a stable democracy required a strong middle class. The Pope, in his recently published Exhortation, argues against the ideology hurting the poor and destroying the middle class. This article examines how the income inequality came about and how it could be corrected. Read more

  • Laffer Economics: The Long Spiral into Debt

    Art hur Laffer’s theories have often been used to support supply-side economics, the idea that cutting taxes would lead to economic growth which would in turn increase tax revenue. However, empirical data shows that Laffer’s theories are more about ideology than about practical economics. Read more

  • Who Is ALEC ?

    On the surface, ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that provides model legislation for our state and national legislatures. Underneath, it is a secretive organization promoting corporate interests and undermining the principles on which our country was founded. Read more

  • Academic Freedom and Democracy – ALEC Style

    This article gives an example of how ALEC gets bills introduced into state law. Corporate members and legislative members meet to draft “model bills” that favors special interests more than that of the citizens of the respective states. ALEC has 501(C)(4)status as a charity, which makes it tax exempt and hides its motives and the… Read more