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From Examiner.com:
By Christopher Arps
It was called the Reagan Revolution: a realignment of the political system away from big government and corruption and toward conservative principles and an economic system steeped in free market ideas.
However, in many solid red states over the past decade, the Reagan Principles have been left behind as Republican majorities are ironically increasing in many of those states. And at the core of that paradox is an increasing capitulation by Republican leadership to big business, pimps for the tax credit crowd and more bows to the insurance industry than the President at an OPEC meeting. In other words, the new Oklahoma Sub-Standard.
The Oklahoma Sub-Standard began to really pick up steam with the sad regimes of former Senate Leader Glenn Coffee and Speaker Chris Benge. This blogger wrote numerous times of the leadership vacuum that engulfed the un-dynamic duo. Utterly lacking in any sort of skill set that would permit them to succeed in the free-market, these two now litter the public sector landscape with Coffee remote controlling the hapless new Senate Leader Brian Bingman from his perch as advisor to Gov. Fallin, something predicted by the Oklahoma Political News Service over a year ago.
But as to the present, observers in the region are pointing to the new Oklahoma Sub-Standard as the sure-fire way to scuttle permanent Republican majorities. Let’s examine one such issue: so-called ‘tort reform.’ Read more…
1 Comment
1. MS 75 replies at 2nd February 2012, 4:29 pm :
There’s a way to right this ship folks. This state is so backwards sometimes. So backwards, in fact, that you probably don’t even know the Corporations Commission has been sitting on a regulation that will feed more money into our universal service fund through, you guessed it, more taxes. How a nondemocratic body could even consider this I don’t know. The good news is they put off the decision again today, after months of doing so. The bad news is, they can still impose this new tax on us any time they want.
So here’s what the legislature can do, at least in my opinion. Take this power away. Cap the universal service fund just to eliminate the temptation altogether to raise our taxes even more!
One idea, out of many, for the legs. to make real movement. Not always the sexiest ideas are the most effective
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