Jonathan Small, CPA
Oklahoma Council Of Public Affairs
At an OCPA speech in Tulsa and in other venues, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has said: “Never take a dollar from a free citizen through the coercion of taxation without a very legitimate purpose. We have a solemn duty to spend that dollar as carefully as possible because, when we took it, we diminished that person’s freedom.”
Even though Oklahoma government spending was already at an all-time high, the political leaders who crafted the FY-2013 budget decided to spend even more money. But is there “a very legitimate purpose” behind all this spending? Is all this money — more than $500 per second — being spent “as carefully as possible”?
Read the rest of this scathing critique: http://www.ocpathink.org/articles/1928?utm_source=Another+look+at+the+budget+deal%3A+Something+fishy+in+the+budget&utm_campaign=Another+look+at+the+budget+deal%3A+Fly+me+to+the+moon%3F+Not+with+taxpayer+dollars%21&utm_medium=email
