Sunday, September 24, 2017

The Last Straw

by Rep. Jason Murphey It was the last straw. For years, an area-based business owner had managed to deal with the stressful and potentially punitive sales tax collection requirements of the state, but a fiscally foolish decision by the governor and this year's state...

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- September 24, 2017 at 06:48PM

Sunday, September 17, 2017

This Has To Be a Mistake

by Rep. Jason Murphey "This has to be a mistake!" That was my first thought as I stared up at the monitor in the Appropriations Committee hearing room. The committee was just starting to consider the 2018 appropriations bill -- a bill that was supposed to be House Bill...

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- September 17, 2017 at 08:27PM

Monday, September 11, 2017

How the 6.9 Billion Dollar Budget Bill Was Approved Without Anyone Seeing It

How the 6.9 Billion Dollar Budget Bill Was Approved Without Anyone Seeing It, by Rep. Jason Murphey Would you believe that the House Appropriations Committee approved the 2018 state budget without reading a single word of the bill? Surely such an astounding statement would cause you to question the very sanity of the system the State of Oklahoma...

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- September 11, 2017 at 07:27AM

Monday, September 4, 2017

The No Longer Hidden Evil of the Latest Tax Increases

The No Longer Hidden Evil of the Latest Tax Increases, by Rep. Jason Murphey As this legislative year concluded, those who had been trying to raise taxes gave up on all but the smallest pretense of following the Constitution. Although they had tried and successfully passed many increases, the cumulative effect of these...

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- September 04, 2017 at 07:18AM