by Jason Lawter | Nov 17, 2021 | Blog
By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. -John Maynard Keynes Despite current inflation rates, the United States economy appears to be doing well when looking at the...
by Byron Schlomach | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog
Despite this coming from someone who used to tease about government being the root of all evil just to get a rise out of people, this is not hyperbole. The income tax is evil – truly, seriously evil. It should die at every level of government. There is nothing about...
by Jason Lawter | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. – Jean-Baptiste Colbert Around 20 years ago Oklahoma had the idea to be on the cutting edge of commercial...
by Jason Lawter | Jul 7, 2021 | Research
Oklahoma Government Revenues and Spending in Perspective – Update Author Jason Lawter Abstract This paper is the latest update to 1889 Institute’s annual comparison of state and local taxes and spending in six areas as a percentage of personal income across states. ...
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...
