Comments on: Fallin Pushes Back on Tax Cut Naysayers, Points To Connecticut Job Loses

By: Mr Beeton

Mr Beeton — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:38:24 +0000

If our state officials are so concerned about having a lower tax rate to attract BIG business as the Governor Fallin states … then why isn’t GE here instead of Boston … Apparently she didn’t politic enough soon enough to have them (GE) consider us as a location

By: Mike Fields

Mike Fields — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 02:44:08 +0000

The cold-hearted governor of Oklahoma has no concept or care as to the amount of pain and suffering she has caused the state. Her unprecedented tax cuts to the most wealthy and the tax credits to the biggest companies while taking away funds from the youngest, the oldest, the sickest and the neediest.

Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma governor with no morals, no intellect and no heart. Her legacy will be her ignorance and greed.

By: Henry Staat

Henry Staat — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:26:47 +0000

Mary took the “tax cut cool aid” long ago and is not likely to ever change her tune. It seems to never occur to her that Oklahoma gets what it pays for (and deserves) when it comes to the states financing of essential services (education, transportation, health, etc.) —- and that these might matter to a company seeking a business location. Oklahoma can always be counted on to be in the bottom five or ten in virtually any of these categories. The defense of saying that the latest tax cut only made a record deficit “only a little worse” is not a compelling argument — and in fact, quite silly. But you get a lot of that sort of thinking here in Oklahoma.

By: Kenneth HIcks

Kenneth HIcks — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:53:34 +0000

Actually, there is very little evidence — precise or otherwise — that supports the notion that tax climate is a particularly important factor that businesses and corporations weigh in moving jobs. In fact, there is little evidence that high taxes are “job killers,” but there is quite a bit of evidence that OK Republicans have constructed a tax regime that cannot pay for the things that provide working Oklahomans with avenues into the middle class. As an educator, I view the Governor’s defense of these irresponsible tax cuts a pathetic and half-hearted dodge. Regardless of whether is “just 10%,” you don’t cut taxes in the midst of a revenue crisis