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Health
Care Solutions That Work: See what's inside this month's Perspective
Information on the 2008 Summer Speaker Series is coming soon
July 30th:
OCPA will co-host a school choice event
with the Americans for Prosperity
September
18th: OCPA dinner in Tulsa with Ed Meese
Please visit the events section of our website for more
information.
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Sensible energy policies needed
By David Deming
If the price of gasoline is $3.50 a gallon, Americans have no one to blame but themselves.
For decades, we have demonized the people and businesses who supply our energy. Energy fuels our economy and prosperity, but bad public policies have
made it increasingly more difficult to develop our own vast resources.
We sit on our own undeveloped energy supplies and complain about the high price of gasoline and imported oil. Public policy in the United States is
not designed to facilitate the development of new energy supplies, but to stop it.
The U.S. government has placed the continental shelves of the U.S. off-limits for drilling. Offshore drilling would have virtually no significant
effect on environmental quality. But our energy policies are not determined by science, reason, or facts. Energy policy in the U.S. is held hostage by
a fanatical environmentalism based on emotion, fraud, and deceit. READ MORE
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10,000 Students to Benefit from Georgia School Choice Law
This week Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed in to law legislation that would provide $50 million of corporate and individual scholarship tax
credits.
The new law allows corporations to receive a 100 percent tax credit for donations--up to 75 percent of their total state tax liability--to
organizations that grant scholarships to children who want to attend private schools. Individuals can also donate up to $1,000 per person (or $2,500
per married couple) to these organizations and receive a 100 percent tax credit for these contributions. Student scholarship organizations must spend
at least 90 percent of donations on scholarships.
This year Oklahoma legislators tried to pass similar legislation but it failed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. READ MORE! |
The promise of "Change"
By: Brett Magbee
"Change" is such an interesting word. Every candidate who has ever run for office has touted
change. No one has a monopoly on that word. Those who run for office are always telling us how much things will change if they are elected.
Challengers are always using it against incumbents and incumbents likewise use it against challengers ("together we must finish changing things").
Change is a popular notion because it always seems no one likes the current
circumstances. Doesn't matter whether Democrat or Republican -- all candidates running for office this year know that the pollsters say the
promise of change is an attractive siren which lures voters to the polls. READ MORE
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