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1.21.2003
Urban Tulsa editorial nothing more than cookie cutter policy from tax cutting zealots The editorial by William Conerly in the Jan. 16-22 2003 issue was little more than another drum beater from the National Center for Policy Analysis that sees cutting taxes as the cure all solution to all ills. The author refers to our state as a "supertanker" that "cannot change its course very quickly". Instead it is the NCPA that never sees any reason to change its course towards driving federal and state governments into greater and greater debt. The title of the editorial, "Tax - Spend Stupor" suggests that governments using tax revenue to fund investments into communities and infrastructure, schools and the quality of life for its citizens represents a inherently flawed mechanism. It is the proposal of the NCPA that government must reduce income taxes to a trickle while at the same time pouring more and more money into the military and incentive programs for business that resembles a mutant disfiguration of government's role. You will notice that they insist on the elimination of the income taxes and capital gains taxes while not offering any other means to fund government programs. This strategy illustrates the end result that they desire, and that is the reduction of government into nothing more than a collection service that collects taxes from the poor to transfer community capital to business. I am a citizen of Oklahoma, in contrast to Conerly who lives in Portland, Oregon. I fail to see how underpaid teachers, an anemic transit system, unrepaired school buildings and an embarrassing lack of investment by the State of Oklahoma into the infrastructure of the state as a "supertanker" of runaway government spending. Instead I see a failed strategy to pander to an element of society that always seeks to avoid the costs of living and doing business in America. We have a choice between creating the society that Conerly envisions by cutting all government investments into infrastructure and education to create a desperate, uneducated third world environment right here in Oklahoma or we can use government as it was intended, as a tool for the citizens to create a environment in which they want to live. | |
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