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"Step Up Oklahoma" says they can solve OK financial woes
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<blockquote data-quote="rawhide" data-source="post: 3082641" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>"Getting theirs", in my opinion is one of the key issues that prevents fiscal reform from occurring. It appears many elected officials talk about fiscal responsibility while voting for their own interest. Earmarks for agencies and projects that come from taxes never intended to support them and more than half of state money NOT under the control of the legislature leaves a lot of non elected agency officials unaccountable to the legislature or the people. </p><p></p><p>A story told to me by a county commissioner a couple of months ago. His crew repaired a bridge in his district for around $70k (as best I remember). Another bridge repair almost identical the one he repaired was handled by state transportation at a cost nearly 10x. </p><p></p><p>If I had all the answers I'd lay them out here, but I do believe that a overhauling of our state constitution and the rules for handling the funds at the state level needs to change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rawhide, post: 3082641, member: 3448"] "Getting theirs", in my opinion is one of the key issues that prevents fiscal reform from occurring. It appears many elected officials talk about fiscal responsibility while voting for their own interest. Earmarks for agencies and projects that come from taxes never intended to support them and more than half of state money NOT under the control of the legislature leaves a lot of non elected agency officials unaccountable to the legislature or the people. A story told to me by a county commissioner a couple of months ago. His crew repaired a bridge in his district for around $70k (as best I remember). Another bridge repair almost identical the one he repaired was handled by state transportation at a cost nearly 10x. If I had all the answers I'd lay them out here, but I do believe that a overhauling of our state constitution and the rules for handling the funds at the state level needs to change. [/QUOTE]
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