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Oklahomas Fiscal Outlook:Moving from Crisis to Stability
July 2012
David Blatt
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Oklahomas Path to Prosperity
What does Oklahoma need tobe a prosperous state?
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Oklahomas Path to Prosperity
What Prosperity Looks Like Good-paying jobs
Well-educated, well-trained workforce -
Quality education system from early childhood to
post-secondary More college graduates
Well-functioning infrastructure
Healthy communities -
Access to timely and affordable care
Public health
Safe streets
Stable safety net for those in need
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Oklahomas Path to Prosperity
Were In This Together Successful outcomes for our families, businesses and
communities depend on effective public structures andsystems
Government is among our means of achieving our
common goals as a state alongside private businesses,non-profits, philanthropies, faith groups, and families
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Oklahomas Path to Prosperity
We Lag Behind
We fall short in many of our common goals:
Students in bottom third in reading and math proficiency (2009)
43rd in share of population with a college degree (22.2 percent,2008)
46th in overall health; in the bottom 10 states for rates ofsmoking, obesity, diabetes, job-related deaths, prematuredeaths, infant mortality, and days lost to mental and physicalillness (2011)
1 in 6 Oklahomans (16.9 percent) and 1 in 4 children (24.5percent) live in poverty (2010)
4th in total prisoners per capita and 1st in female incarcerationrates (2009)
9th worst road conditions
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Oklahomas Path to Prosperity
We Already Lag Behind
Oklahoma invests less than most states in ourpublic structures.
-$1,000
$1,000
$3,000
$5,000
$7,000
$9,000
Spending
perPerson
State and Local Spending per Person by Function, 2007-08
Oklahoma
US Average
Source: U.S. Bureauof the Census
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We Already Lag Behind
Four years of budget cuts or flat funding andgrowing obligations threaten to corrode our publicstructures and weaken our prosperity
Can we provide a quality education for all
students and produce the skilled workforcethat businesses need?
Can we fix our crumbling infrastructure?
Can we improve our physical health and
well-being? Can we ensure the safety of vulnerable
children and seniors left in our care?
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
The Recession Hit in Late 2008 Oklahoma experienced six straight quarters of negative growth
(declining state personal income) in late 20082009
Economy has mostly grown faster than the nations since start of2010
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National Oklahoma
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
State Budgets Hammered
All but four states faced budget shortfalls in FY 11.
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Its a Revenue Problem
Five consecutive quarters of worsening collections
Revenue dropped more than twice as steeply as in theprevious downturn
Revenues recovering over past eight quarters
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Its a Revenue Problem FY 10 General Revenue 23 percent below FY 08 pre-downturn
levels
Revenues increased by 10.5 percent in FY 11 and are projected torise 8.1 percent in FY 12 but to remain below pre-downturn levelsthrough FY 13
$4,717$4,408
$4,174$4,616
$4,966
$5,701$5,935 $5,953
$5,544
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$5,138$5,555 $5,600
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Its a Revenue ProblemTax Cuts Had a Long-Term Impact
Tax cuts were large, permanent, and back-loaded
Tax cuts were stretched out over several years; full impact willnot be felt until FY13
Major cuts were almost all to the personal income tax
Lost Revenues from Select Tax Cuts Enacted 2004 - 2006
FY'05 through FY'10 (in $ millions)
$18.7$144.8
$333.3
$561.8$651.1
$776.9
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source: Oklahoma Tax Commission
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Tax Collections Are at Historic Lows In FY 10 tax collections equaled 5.5 percent of state
personal income, compared to 7.2 percent in FY 01
Tax collections have not kept pace with personalincome since FY 06
Sources: State personal income from Bureau of Economic Analysis; Taxcollections from Annual Executive Budget
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis Three consecutive years of declining appropriations (FY 10
FY 12) followed by modest increases (FY 13)
FY 13 appropriations of $6,855.8 million:
$253 million, 3.8 percent, above FY 12
$269 million, 3.8 percent, below FY 09
See FY 13 Budget Highlights at:http://okpolicy.org/files/FY13Highlights.pdf
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State Appropriations, FY '06- FY '13
(in $ Millions, includes supplementals, excludes Rainy Day "spillover" funds)
State Revenues Federal Relief Rainy Day Fund
Total=
$6,603
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis Just under 90 percent of appropriations consistently goes to 10agencies that provide core services
Over 65 agencies share remaining funding
Common Ed.; $2,278; 35.0%
Higher Ed.; $945 ;14.5%
OHCA (Medicaid);$983 ; 15.1%
DHS; $537 ; 8.3%Corrections; $460 ;
7.1%Transportation;
$107 ; 1.6%
Mental Health; $187; 2.9%
Career Tech; $134 ;2.1%
Juv. Affairs; $96 ;1.5%
Public Safety; $85 ;
1.3%
All Other
Agencies; $699 ;
10.7%
FY '12 Appropriations: Total and 10 Largest Agencies (excludes supplementals)
TotalAppropriations:
$6,510.5 million
Total Ten Largest:
$5,811.9; 89.2%
Notes:
Transportation also received $70 from
bond issue;
OHCA excludes revenue from hospital
provider assessmber (SHOPP)
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis Budgets for three straight years (FY 10, FY 11 & FY 12)involved variations on a theme:
Large shortfalls in projected revenues
Fear of devastating budget cuts
Use of non-recurring revenues to partly bridge the budget gap
Budget cuts across state government but less severe for coreeducation, health, human services, and public safety agencies
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis: FY 10 FY 12 Governors Henry and Fallin and the Legislature used variousrevenue enhancements to bridge budget shortfalls and reduce theseverity of cuts:
Revenue enhancements totaled close to $3 billion over 3 years
Half from federal stimulus bills; remainder divided between
Rainy Day Fund, cash transfers, enhanced tax compliance, andsuspending and deferring tax credits
Most new revenues were one-time/non-recurring
Budget cuts for almost all agencies for 3 consecutive years
Some 40 agencies more than half of all appropriated agencies
absorbed cuts of greater than 20 percent Cuts to some key health, human services, education, and publicsafety agencies were less severe
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis: FY 13 Total appropriations increased by $253 million (3.8 percent) fromFY 12
Most agencies will receive flat funding in FY 13
46 of 78 appropriated agencies will receive the same amount or less
Several agencies received funding increases for targeted
priorities, including:
DHS for the child welfare reform plan
Transportation to fill budget holes after end of bond issues
Health Care Authority for Medicaid expenditure growth
Mental Health and Corrections for criminal justice reforms
Education agencies received no additional funding or very smallincreases
Support for public schools through the state aid formula held flat
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Budgeting Through the Crisis No agencies have been funded to cover rising operating andemployee benefit costs
State government workforce has shrunk by 9.8 percent comparedto FY 09 and is 4.4 percent smaller than in FY 01
Staffing cuts have been especially severe for correctional
facilities
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Impact of Cuts State appropriated spending reached its lowest level inat least 30 years in FY 11 and has likely fallen evenfurther this year
Budget cuts and funding shortfalls continue to affectOklahoma students, teachers, public employees, non-
profit organizations and private sector businesses
4.5%
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Sources: State personal income from Bureau of Economic Analysis;Appropriations from various sources
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Impact of Cuts: Education
State aid funding has declined by $214 million since FY 2008while public school enrollment has increased by over 24,000students.
Almost 1,000 fewer teachers than in 2008, leading to largerclass sizes and reduced class offerings.
Department of Education eliminated funding for adulteducation, alternative education, research-based teachertraining programs, evaluation contracts, and other programs.
Despite new testing requirements, funding reduced for ACEremediation and eliminated for Reading Sufficiency in FY 13.
FY 12 budget initially failed to fund full year of health carebenefits and stipends for board-certified teachers.
Common education has fallen to lowest share of stateappropriations since at least FY 00
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Impact of Cuts: Health and Human Services
In the past three years, the Health Department has been cut by20 percent, forcing layoffs for at least 300 employees.
Health Department eliminated 17 child guidance centers servingpre-school children with developmental delays;
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Servicesreduced beds and closed centers for childrens mental health andadult substance abuse, cut contracts to all providers;
Over 6,000 families on waiting list for developmentally-disabledhome and community based waiver program;
Significant reductions in counseling programs for abused womenand children and prenatal education for low-income mothers;
Office of Juvenile Affairs cancelled youth detention and gangprevention programs.
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Impact of Cuts: Other Areas
The Department of Corrections remains critically understaffed.Stress from being required to work frequent double-shifts isleading to high turnover. Often just one officer may be on duty ina dining hall of 160 inmates.
The number of state troopers on Oklahoma highways is at itslowest level in 22 years.
The state owes $36 million to more than 600 cities, counties,electrical cooperatives, state agencies, fire districts, schools andIndian tribes for its share of costs associated with 21 naturaldisasters dating back to 2007.
State workers have not received a pay increase in 6 years. Thenumber of state workers has dropped by 3,804 (9.8 percent)since FY 09.
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Budget Trends: FY 10 FY 13
Impact of Cuts
Oklahomans expect state government to:
educate our children
train our workforce
maintain our infrastructure
protect our communities
aid our most vulnerable family members and neighbors
Have years of underfunding and the extended period of flatfunding and cuts shrunk state government to the point
where it is no longer capable of performing these corefunctions?
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The Challenges We Face
An Incomplete Recovery Monthly General Revenue collections above the same month
for the prior year in 24 of last 25 months
-8%
-22%-19%
-21%
-28%-30%
-26%
-32%
-30%
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Jan-09 Apr-09 Jul-09 Oct-09 Jan-10 Apr-10 Jul-10 Oct-10 Jan-11 Apr-11 Jul-11 Oct-11 Jan-12 Apr-12
Change in Monthly General Revenue Collections,
Compared to Same Month Prior Year, Jan '09 - May'12
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The Challenges We Face
An Incomplete Recovery FY 12 revenue collections through May up 21 percent from
FY 10 but still 7 percent below FY07
Revenues still below nominal levels of 6 years ago
4,2694,001
3,748
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5,1215,348 5,321 5,077
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The Challenges We Face
An Incomplete RecoverySubstantial demands on scarce resources
Short-TermIn a hole
Need to restore cuts of past three years and pay for ongoingoperating costs of state government
Strengthen our child welfare system in accordance with settlementagreement
Thousands with developmental disabilities and mental illness on thewaiting list for services
Long-TermStructural deficit
Hazardous physical infrastructure roads, bridges, state buildings
Water infrastructure needs - $80 billion over next 50 years
Aging population will require increased health care, social servicesspending
Unfunded pension liabilities still exceed $10 billion
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The Challenges We Face
Projected Annual Budget Surpluses and Deficits
Before and After 2004-2006 Tax Cuts (2007 to 2035)
(2,500)
(2,000)
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2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 2027 2029 2031 2033 2035
Growing Long-Term Obligations
Oklahoma faces a structural deficitNormal growth of revenues is insufficient to finance the normal
cost of services year after year.
Source: Projections conducted in 2007 by Dr. Kent Olson, Professor ofEconomics, Oklahoma State University
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Growing Long-Term ObligationsFederal Deficit Reduction Will Compound State Problems
Budget Control Act established caps on discretionaryspending though 2021 to reduce federal deficits by $917B
Failure of Super Committee to agree on deficit reductionmeasures triggered automatic procedures to reduce
spending by $1.2 trillion
Exempts Medicaid, mandatory programs
Half the cuts would be from defense budget
Discretionary programs facing 9 percent cuts
Includes all education and worker training fundingstreams, many social services and health grants,agriculture, environment, others
Effective January 2013
The Challenges We Face
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
You have to be sure you're right before cutting tax rates or
shrinking the tax base. The Legislature and the governor
cannot say in following years, Oops, we made a mistake.
- Larkin Warner, OSU Regents Professor of Economics, Nov. 2011
Whatever our tax structure is in Oklahoma, its doing a good
job of not holding us back, and on the other hand we dont
want to do anything to mess it up. And thats what you
always have to be careful of when you start getting politicalsolutions to problems that may not really exist.
- Scott Meacham, Former State Treasurer, April 2012
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
Preserve the Income Tax
The essential cornerstone of a balanced tax system
Single largest state revenue source:
$2.2 billion in FY10 - 32.1 percent of total collections.
Personal
Income Tax,
$2,224.8
32.1%
Corporate
Income Tax,
$216.4
3.1%
Sales Tax,
$1,815.3
26.2%
Gross
Production Tax,
$732.2
10.6%
Motor Vehicle
Taxes,
$579.3
8.4%
Other,
$1,353.6
19.6%
Total State Tax Collections, FY '10
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
Preserve the Income Tax
Largest funding source for state services
Based on the share of agency appropriations funded with incometax revenues, elimination of the personal income tax would leaveus unable to pay for:
Salary and benefits for 17,000 classroom teachers; AND
Health insurance coverage for 430,000 low-income children; AND
Incarceration of 9,300 inmates; AND
Tuition for 19,000 Oklahomas Promise students; AND
The ROADS transportation improvement plan; AND
Many other services and programs across state government.
See: What the Income Tax Pays For at http://okpolicy.org/tax-reform-information
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
Preserve the Income Tax
Taxes are rarely decisive in business investment decisions.
For 24 years, Ive been conducting interviews with
executives of companies that we tried to recruit to Ardmorethat ended up locating elsewhere. Not once in all thoseyears did a company that rejected Ardmore base itsdecisions on taxes.
-Ardmore Chamber of Commerce President Wes Stucky, Oct. 2011
I will tell you that state income tax had absolutely noimpact in terms of the decision of merging the company and
where the corporate headquarters is located.-Phillips Petroleum CEO Jim Mulva, discussing the companys merger withHouston-based Conoco Inc. and decision to locate its new headquarters inHouston, November 2001
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
Preserve the Income Tax
Oklahoma is already doing better than most states,including those without an income tax
Third best job growth, #1 best manufacturing job growth (2011)
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
Preserve the Income Tax
Cutting the income tax will create great pressure to raise salestaxes or property taxes
Oklahomas average combined state and local sales tax rate 8.66percent is already 5th highest in the nation (Tax Foundation)
Untaxed Internet sales already cost Oklahoma $185M to $225Mannually (OK Tax Commission)
Texas has a higher state sales tax rate (6.25 percent) than doesOklahoma (4.5 percent) and assesses the sales tax on 83categories of services, compared to 32 in Oklahoma
Every state without an income tax has higher per capita property
taxes than Oklahoma
The average Texan pays three times as much property tax as theaverage Oklahoman
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible Course
The income tax is essential to tax fairness
Low and middle-incomeOklahomans pay moreof their income in state& local taxes than dowealthy households
Income tax partlyoffsets the regressivityof sales and propertytaxes
Broad-based taxpreferences help low-income seniors andfamilies with children
Preserve the Income Tax
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The Challenges We Face
The 2012 Tax Debate Various tax cut proposals under consideration
All would lower the top income tax rate, at least partlyoffset lost revenue by eliminating various income taxcredits, deductions and exemptions
Plan differed as to: Fiscal impact (revenue-neutral vs. revenue
reduction)
Which tax preferences were eliminated
Reduction or elimination of income tax
Triggers for future tax cuts
See OK Policys Summary and Comparison at:http://okpolicy.org/files/TaxPlanComparison.pdf
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The Challenges We Face
The 2012 Tax Debate
The Senate Plan (SB 1623)
Based on 2011 Tax Reform Tax Force recommendationsdeveloped by Sen. Mazzei & Rep. Dank
Would have lowered the top income tax rate from 5.25 to 4.75percent over 2 years
Revenue-Neutral: lost revenue fully offset by eliminating thesales tax relief credit, child/child care tax credit, earned incometax credit and economic development incentives; limitedeligibility for personal exemption
Increased taxes for one-third of Oklahomans and shifted more
of tax load onto middle-income and low-income households
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The Challenges We Face
The 2012 Tax Debate
OCPA/Laffer Plan (HB 3038/SB 1571)
Immediately lowered top income tax rate from 5.25 to 3.5percent
Top rate automatically reduced each year until total elimination(2022) (amended versions included triggers for future cuts)
Eliminated ALL deductions, exemptions and credits, including:
Standard deduction, personal exemption
Low-income credits
All business income tax credits
Floor substitutes restored exemptions for retirement income,Social Security benefits, veterans income, military pay
Huge revenue loss while raising taxes for almost half ofhouseholds
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The Challenges We Face
The 2012 Tax Debate
Governor Fallins Proposal (HB 3061)
Governors Oklahoma Tax Reduction and Simplification Plan:
No tax on those making $35k/$70K
Taxes ALL income at same ratecreates a tax cliff
Eliminates itemized deductions, low-income credits, deductionsfor retirement and military income, and almost all economicdevelopment credits
Tax cut for most but increase for low- and moderate-incomefamilies with children and seniors.
Fiscal impact in first full year of $350 million
Further cuts in the top income tax rate in future years wheneverrevenues rise > 5 percent until income tax is completely eliminated.
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The Challenges We Face
The 2012 Tax Debate
The Final Agreement/Disagreement
Governor, Speaker, Pro Tem announced tax cut deal just prior tofinal week of session:
Top rate reduced immediately from 5.25 to 4.8 percent
Trigger to reduce rate to 4.5 percent based on revenue growth
Revenue losses partially offset by limiting eligibility forpersonal exemption (to families below $70,000, individualsbelow $35,000); limiting itemized deductions, eliminatingsome business tax incentives
Fiscal impact of $33 million in FY 13, $102 million in FY 14
Tax increase for 24 percent of filers House leadership refused to let bill get heard by full House
Senate rejected last-minute House plan
Governor opted against special session
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The Challenges We Face
A Fiscally Responsible CourseHow do we create a revenue structure that meets our obligations?
Review and reduce tax credit programs:
Income tax, gross production tax credits
Adopt combined corporate reporting
Limit itemized income tax deductions
Modernize the sales tax:
Expand sales tax base to some additional services
Pursue collection of online sales through click-through/affiliate programs
Target any tax relief towards those in greatest need:
Increase the personal exemption
Stretch and index tax brackets
Expand the grocery tax credit or earned income tax credit
Adopt pay-go requirement for tax cuts and new spending
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A Fiscally Responsible Course
Limit Tax Credit Programs
Tax credits should adhere to the following standards:
Formal eligibility process for businesses applying for credits
Clear performance standards regarding investment and/or
job creation, with consequences for failing to meet targets
Full disclosure of how credits are allocated
Sunset provisions, with reauthorization tied to aperformance review
Limit state liability through caps on amounts that can be
claimed subject to annual legislative authority
Gross production tax credits should be limited or eliminated
The Challenges We Face
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A Fiscally Responsible Course
Limit Itemized Income Tax Deductions
Itemized deductions mostly benefit upper-income households
Several options could be considered:
Repeal itemized deductions while increasing the standard
deduction available to all families, OR
Cap the total value of itemized deductions, OR
Convert deductions to a credit as a set amount of selectedfederal deductions, OR
Do away with the deduction for state income tax payments
Could generate $100 million to $115 million in new revenue
Additional state tax liability would be partly offset by reducedfederal tax liability
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Modernize the Sales Tax
Expand the sales tax base to cover selected services
Oklahoma currently taxes only 32 of 168 potentiallytaxable services
Taxing services is needed to maintain the long-termadequacy of the sales tax and make the sales tax moreeconomically fair and rational
Should be careful to exclude services consumed primarilyby businesses to avoid pyramiding
Do away with sales tax exemptions benefitting favoredindustries
Pursue collection of online sales throughclick-through/affiliate programs
Combine these measures with ending the sales tax on groceries
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Provide Broad-Based Income Tax Cuts
If tax cuts are on the table, increasing the personal exemptionand stretching income tax brackets would assist morehouseholds and distribute benefits more broadly than furthercuts to the top rate
Personal exemption has remained unchanged at $1,000 perperson since 1982
Failure for decades to index income tax brackets:
Seven brackets all narrowly squeezed together
Bracket creep56 percent of taxpayers now reach thetop bracket; a much greater share of income is taxedat the highest level
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Adopt Pay-Go Requirement
Ensure that fiscal balance is maintained by requiring that taxcuts be fully offset with:
New revenues
Elimination of tax breaks
Identified spending cuts
New spending obligations would have to be paid for withadditional revenues or cuts to other services
Current services budget and long-term budget forecasting would
also help policymakers make sustainable budget choices
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Make smarter expenditure decisions:
Consolidate duplicative agencies and streamline services
Prioritize prevention and surveillance
Ensure adequate funding of public pensions
Give control for making decisions about revenues and spendingback to our elected representatives
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