It’s time to add another failure to Governor Kevin Stitt’s long and prestigious list of political failures.
In case you missed it, Governor Stitt – a mega-millionaire with more money than he’ll ever know what to do with – called a special session of the legislature this week to cut taxes for high-income earners and set the stage for Oklahoma’s next budget crisis.
His reasoning is that since Oklahoma has a lot of money in the bank thanks to stimulus funding, inflation, strong oil prices and other factors that are way beyond his control, we should go ahead and give that money back to rich people, as opposed to investing it in it’s infrastructure, services and other areas that could help move Oklahoma closer to his goal of being a Top 10 state.