StateImpact OK Talks Taxes on Oklahoma News Report

• Joe Wertz
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  Joe Wertz was a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma from 2011-2019. He reported on energy and environment issues for national NPR audiences and other national outlets. He previously worked as a managing editor, assistant editor and staff reporter at several major Oklahoma newspapers and studied journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma.

In case you missed it, StateImpact Oklahoma was on OETA’s Oklahoma News Report last week to talk taxes with host Dick Pryor.

We discussed ongoing efforts to reduce or eliminate the personal income tax, those use taxes — which almost no one pays — and the historical reasons most Oklahomans shudder at the thought of a state property tax