{"id":1759,"date":"2011-11-03T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2011-11-03T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:34:51","slug":"the-great-oklahoma-tax-code-word-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/11\/03\/the-great-oklahoma-tax-code-word-count\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Oklahoma Tax Code Word Count"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NPR STATEIMPACT<\/p>

A word cloud of the 50 most-repeated words in the Oklahoma tax code. The bigger the word, the more it’s used.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Word count is a hot topic<\/a> among Republican presidential candidates.<\/p>

The federal tax code is too long, they agree, but just how long depends on who you ask \u2014 and when. Rick Perry said it was 3 million, while Herman Cain\u2019s estimation has varied between 8 and 10 million words.<\/p>

Data consultant Michael Bommarito and Michigan State Law Professor Daniel Katz say<\/a> the Internal Revenue Code\u2019s word count is more like 2.6 million.<\/p>

Since there\u2019s a simultaneous discussion<\/a> about reforming the state tax code, we were curious: Just how many words are in Oklahoma\u2019s tax code?<\/p>

Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes covers state Revenue and Taxation.<\/p>

In their analysis of the federal tax code, Bommarito and Katz made an effort to eliminate \u201cnonsubstantive words\u201d like is<\/em>, and<\/em>, or at<\/em>. StateImpact Oklahoma followed suit, and also didn\u2019t count the<\/em>, or<\/em>, is<\/em>, which<\/em> and a handful of abbreviated or repetitive words like Oklahoma<\/em>, section<\/em>, tax<\/em> and pursuant<\/em>.<\/p>

Our non-scientific estimate: Oklahoma\u2019s tax code contains about 450,000 words.<\/p>

If, for some reason, you want to download the whole thing and check our math, right-click right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR STATEIMPACTA word cloud of the 50 most-repeated words in the Oklahoma tax code. The bigger the word, the more it’s used. Word count is a hot topic among Republican presidential candidates.The federal tax code is too long, they agree, but just how long depends on who you ask \u2014 and when. Rick Perry said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[160,157,159,158],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}