Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Tax hike would hit poor hardest
media mention“As a percentage of income, though, the tax would fall hardest on the poor. That’s because they spend a bigger portion of their income on retail purchases.The analysis was prepared in recent days by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C., research organization. It was requested by the Oklahoma Policy Institute, a Tulsa-based group that supports higher levels of funding for education and other core state services.”