{"id":6201,"date":"2012-04-30T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:03:44","slug":"steep-income-tax-reduction-wont-happen-this-year-gov-fallin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/30\/steep-income-tax-reduction-wont-happen-this-year-gov-fallin-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Steep Income Tax Reduction Won\u2019t Happen This Year, Gov. Fallin Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6202\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6202\" title=\"Gov. Mary Fallin\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/fallin-provided.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Oklahoma Governor&#39;s Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Gov. Mary Fallin\u2019s proposed steep reduction of the state\u2019s top individual income tax rate won\u2019t happen this year.<\/p><p>This is the first time Fallin has publicly acknowledged what state lawmakers have been <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-senate-leader-deep-income-tax-cut-unlikely\/article\/3665720\">signaling<\/a> for weeks, the Associated Press<a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-gov.-mary-fallin-says-huge-tax-cut-off-for-2012\/article\/3671126\/?page=1\"> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere doesn&#8217;t seem to be the appetite in the state Legislature to make a huge, significant cut in the income tax, but I&#8217;m still pushing to get an income tax reduction that will be meaningful, that will help the people of Oklahoma and certainly help our business owners,\u201d Fallin said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->Falin met with House and Senate budget leaders today, but wouldn\u2019t tell the AP how deep a cut she expects, but \u201cthat lawmakers in the GOP-controlled House are discussing a cut that would drop the top rate below 5 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mary Fallin\u2019s proposed steep reduction of the state\u2019s top individual income tax rate won\u2019t happen this year.This is the first time Fallin has publicly acknowledged what state lawmakers have been signaling for weeks, the Associated Press reports. \u201cThere doesn&#8217;t seem to be the appetite in the state Legislature to make a huge, significant cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,16],"tags":[118,53],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201"}],"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=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}