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Published: August 8, 2010
If Oklahoma were forced to peg every statistic to a regional average, as State Question 744 proposes to do for school spending, the state would have to lower its top income tax rate from 5.5 percent to 4.9 percent.
It would have to reduce the number of school districts from 539 to 415 and increase the number of counties from 77 to 103. Legislative pay would need to be cut from $38,400 a year to $18,478. To meet a regional average, the state's per capita personal income would need to increase by about $700 a year.
SQ 744 would constitutionally set school spending at some magical, regional floating average, allowing lawmakers in the six states surrounding Oklahoma to do our Legislature's appropriations job. SQ 744 would prune the state of resources needed for highways, prisons, social services and other functions of state government... FULL ARTICLE
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Sun, August 8, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski