{"id":8728,"date":"2012-08-10T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:52:33","slug":"tax-credit-conflict-illustrates-disconnect-among-many-oklahomans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/10\/tax-credit-conflict-illustrates-disconnect-among-many-oklahomans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Credit Conflict Illustrates Disconnect Among Many Oklahomans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4881\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, closes out the final tax credit task force meeting in 2011.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/david-dank-tctf.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4881\" title=\"Rep. David Dank\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/david-dank-tctf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/david-dank-tctf.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/david-dank-tctf-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, closes out the final tax credit task force meeting in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma&#8217;s tax policy debate continues again this year. And, once again, state Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, is leading a task force charged with examining tax credits and economic incentives.<\/p><p>Last year, Dank&#8217;s Tax Credit Task Force recommended reining in the tax credits with constitutional amendments, increased auditing and performance measures, and the outright elimination of transferable tax credits, a source of much committee consternation.<\/p><p>Almost all of those ideas died at the hands of special interest groups. The crux of the conflict, as the <em>Journal Record<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2012\/08\/09\/fourth-reading-dank-still-fighting-the-good-fight-opinion\/\">M. Scott Carter sees it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahomans still have a huge disconnect between the amount of taxes they are willing to pay and the services they expect from their government.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Most Oklahomans want smaller government and less taxes, &#8220;yet in the same breath, these people will also tell you how they need better roads and schools and how there aren\u2019t enough police or firemen working,&#8221; Carter observes.<\/p><p><strong>Discussion:<\/strong> If Oklahoma&#8217;s state government is overgrown, where would you start pruning? Be candid. Name names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s tax policy debate continues again this year. And, once again, state Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, is leading a task force charged with examining tax credits and economic incentives.Last year, Dank&#8217;s Tax Credit Task Force recommended reining in the tax credits with constitutional amendments, increased auditing and performance measures, and the outright elimination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,16],"tags":[55,60],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728"}],"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=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}