Great News!

It seems that the state will have $114 million dollars less to spend this year on the state budget.



This is great news! Why? The largest attribution is to the lowering of income tax rates. Paying less to a government that has legislators who cant seem to pay their share is great.

This is a prime example of a government out of control and spending money like a drunken Kennedy. We have known for quite some time that the tax cuts of previous years would be coming and yet we did nothing to prepare for this.

Instead in his state of the state speech, Governor Henry asked for more increases. I am all for more and safer prisons. I am all for teachers getting paid. I am certainly for safer roads and bridges.

What I am not for is the ever increasing budget that we continue to get year after year. I understand that the budget must increase to keep up with inflation but last time I checked inflation was not at an alarming 7%. In fact according to inflationdata.com we currently are at 4.28%. Scary but not 7% scary.

I am sick of hearing stories about legislators running around the capitol finding places to insert their pork projects and looking for places to spend excess money. It is time for Oklahoma to come into the 21st century, I would be happy with the latter part of the 20th for that matter, and start holding state agencies accountable for budget woes and mismanagement.

One only needs to look at the vast amount of commissions and panels that our state has to realize the gross mismanagement of our state budget. I wont even get started on our education budget and its likeness towards Jared before the 2 year long subway sandwich bender....Bloated isn't a strong enough word. Oklahoma's educational budget makes Oprah look like Kate Moss after a week long snort fest at Pablo Escobars cocaine buffet.

We as voters should start holding our legislators responsible for their actions as well.