Eliminate income taxes over 10 years?

[Hoss]

Thanks to Mary Fallin Oklahoma is doing very good, anyone who wants a job can find one in Tulsa. The Sunday Tulsa paper is full of jobs.  Mary Fallin is pro-business and favors tax cuts~ the golden formulia that grows economies.

You wouldn't by any chance happen to be an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer, would you?

Oh, and by the way, those people I know looking for jobs beg to differ with you.  Another reason why I still don't think you reside here.  You're disconnected from the Tulsa/Oklahoma reality.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Thanks to Mary Fallin Oklahoma is doing very good, anyone who wants a job can find one in Tulsa. The Sunday Tulsa paper is full of jobs.  Mary Fallin is pro-business and favors tax cuts~ the golden formulia that grows economies.

Perhaps in spite of....

Tulsa is doing better in my field than OKC, but that really isn't as good as it should be.  Much of it IS in oil and gas, though, so maybe I could get back to where the real money is....

[sauerkraut]

Perhaps in spite of....

Tulsa is doing better in my field than OKC, but that really isn't as good as it should be.  Much of it IS in oil and gas, though, so maybe I could get back to where the real money is....

The national economy is down due to Obama & the democrats, let's face it  Obama's anti-oil and anti-drilling policy hurt Oklahoma, but in November when Obama is gone and the world/industry turns to the new president elect Romney the oil and gas industry should really start to pick up. Can't drive a car with a windmill- Even with a sour national economy the state of Oklahoma is doing very good- there are jobs here.

[sauerkraut]

You wouldn't by any chance happen to be an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer, would you?

Oh, and by the way, those people I know looking for jobs beg to differ with you.  Another reason why I still don't think you reside here.  You're disconnected from the Tulsa/Oklahoma reality.

Have you not seen the Sunday Tulsa Newspaper? There is alot of work in Tulsa, full pages of "help wanted" ads and many job fairs with all kinds of employers looking for workers from medical to construction to service jobs. I'm working in Tulsa, if I can find a job here anyone can.

[Hoss]

Have you not seen the Sunday Tulsa Newspaper? There is alot of work in Tulsa, full pages of "help wanted" ads and many job fairs with all kinds of employers looking for workers from medical to construction to service jobs. I'm working in Tulsa, if I can find a job here anyone can.

Prove it.

[godboko71]

Oh yes classifieds filled with work-from-home scams, and "sales" jobs. Just the kind of work most people are looking for. *rolls eyes*

We might have more jobs then most areas but to say no one is out of work is.... silly. You can't say that during the best of times.

[heironymouspasparagus]

The national economy is down due to Obama & the democrats, let's face it  Obama's anti-oil and anti-drilling policy hurt Oklahoma, but in November when Obama is gone and the world/industry turns to the new president elect Romney the oil and gas industry should really start to pick up. Can't drive a car with a windmill- Even with a sour national economy the state of Oklahoma is doing very good- there are jobs here.

Since anyone who actually believes that kind of crap is a total idiot with no brain cells left whatsoever, this may be futile, but will provide you the following links to see some actual performance records of the US economy - much of it going back decades.  Particularly interesting is how the manufacturing graphs (second link) show that the ACTUAL rate of growth for Obamas 3 years is running at about double the rate of Bush's 8 years.  (And if you double - growth rate - a double - time involved - that makes an effective rate of 4 times as fast!)

http://www.crgraphs.com/

http://www.crgraphs.com/2011/09/manufacturing-graphs.html

[AquaMan]

Remember, you're talking to a guy who thinks all of Oklahoma's success is due to Fallin but all of its failures are due to Obama. He's looking at the world through fact filtering sunglasses.

[Hoss]

Remember, you're talking to a guy who thinks all of Oklahoma's success is due to Fallin but all of its failures are due to Obama. He's looking at the world through fact filtering sunglasses.

And from about 300 miles away....

[Townsend]

And from about 300 miles away....

During field trips to the public library from the mental facility.

[sauerkraut]

Polk fun all ya want, but If Fallin can get Oklahoma free of state income taxes, Oklahoma will be taking jobs away from Texas and will become a job magnet. Oklahoma is also blessed with natural resources and is bloated with natural gas reserves just waiting to be developed.

[Townsend]

Polk fun all ya want.

Nobody's making fun.

[Hoss]

Polk fun all ya want, but If Fallin can get Oklahoma free of state income taxes, Oklahoma will be taking jobs away from Texas and will become a job magnet. Oklahoma is also blessed with natural resources and is bloated with natural gas reserves just waiting to be developed.

[carltonplace]

Even Mary Falin would facepalm that.

[nathanm]

The more I think about it, the more I think that shifting away from sales and income tax in favor of property tax might just be the way to go. The (relative) stability in collections would be nice, if nothing else. Not real friendly to all the folks we've encouraged to buy their own home instead of renting, though. (pricing pressure from competition would arguably keep rents from rising enough to fully cover the cost of increased property tax)

If nothing else, it ought to make Gassy happy. His idols were pretty much property tax freaks.