Mary Fallin and her band of Oklahoma lawmakers have done a bunch of stupid, harmful things to the state in recent years. For example, in the early part of this decade, while Oklahoma was facing another budget crisis, lawmakers passed OCPA-crafted, Oil Overlord-approved income tax reduction legislation. The law would gradually lower the state income tax rate in yearly increments if certain thresholds were met, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the state income tax altogether by the 2020s.
Obviously, the plan failed and backfired. Now, one of the original proponents – State Rep Leslie Osborne – is admitting the whole thing was a big mistake... in a South Dakota newspaper.