by Mike Davis | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
Great care must be taken in repealing occupational licensing laws. No, not care in which licensing regimes are repealed or how quickly we are rid of them. They can all go, post haste (yes, that includes doctors and lawyers). Licensing hurts the economy to the tune of...
by Byron Schlomach | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog
In a comparison of states’ total taxes as well as spending in certain broad categories that the 1889 Institute has just published (Oklahoma Government Revenues and Spending in Perspective – Update), some interesting facts arise. Using federal data, we compared states...
by Byron Schlomach | Mar 11, 2020 | Research
Oklahoma Government Revenues and Spending In Perspective – Update Authors Byron Schlomach, Vance H. Fried, Spencer Cadavero Abstract This paper provides an update to 1889 Institute’s 2018 paper that compares state and local taxes and spending in six areas...
by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
“The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in...
by Byron Schlomach | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
Robin Hood is famous for “taking from the rich and giving to the poor,” but the rich from whom he took were the Sheriff of Nottingham and his buddy, the usurper Prince John, and their cronies. The poor who benefited from Robin Hood’s supposed brigandage were common...
by Mike Davis | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
We have to do something! We hear it all the time. Any time there is a tragedy, or now even a perceived problem, policy makers, news anchors, and everyday citizens demand government take some action that might have prevented it. But all too often the proposed responses...
by Mike Davis | Mar 2, 2020 | Research
“Food Deserts” – Health Crisis or Mere Inconvenience? Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper explores the supposed health crisis of “food deserts.” Certain municipalities have passed measures to encourage full-line grocery stores to locate in certain areas;...
by Mike Davis | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog
Many second amendment supporters fear that one day, gun control advocates will use state gun registries as a shopping list to find and steal all the privately-owned guns. These fears seem well-founded, especially in light of recent comments by certain candidates for...
by Benjamin Lepak | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
The Tulsa World recently published a piece by a leader of the teacher walkout a few years ago predictably opposing Governor Stitt’s proposal to expand the Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship program. There is much to take issue with in the piece, which is full of...
by Byron Schlomach | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog
Well, it’s not quite a record, but it’s close. Last school year (2018-19), per-pupil spending on public education in Oklahoma reached $10,000 (rounded by $4 and adjusted to 2015 dollars), only a little behind the zenith reached ten years earlier. That year...
