Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Sales tax increase won’t fix education in Oklahoma

“The sales tax increase would add approximately $610 million annually to the state’s education budget. It would cost medium income Oklahomans about $260 a year, according to a data analysis used in an Oklahoma Watch story. The bottom 20 percent of Oklahoma households would chip in $90 more annually. The top 1 percent would pay $1,691 a year, according to the analysis prepared by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C.”

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