Gov. Mary Fallin, completing her first year in office, wants to gradually reduce Oklahoman's personal income tax until it is eliminated, but she said she won't let that goal trump properly funding core state services.
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BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com
Published: December 26, 2011
Reducing Oklahoma's personal income tax rate next year remains viable, despite recent budget estimates indicating a no-growth year for state government, Gov. Mary Fallin said.
The governor, completing her first year in office, wants to gradually reduce the personal income tax until it is eliminated, but she said she won't let that goal trump properly funding core state services.
“Our goal of reducing the income tax is to make us more competitive, but not to starve state government from the standpoint of starving essential state services for our citizens,” Fallin told The Oklahoman. “We realize that you have to fund government at a level that's appropriate.”
Transportation, public safety, health and human services, and education are core governmental services, she said... FULL ARTICLE
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Mon, December 26, 2011
by John Cox