If revenues fell, the tax cuts scheduled for that year could be delayed, avoiding a drastic reduction in state funding. It's your money. You earned it. If you get to keep and spend more of it, that alone will stimulate our state's economy. Second, government income has grown faster than that of most Oklahoma families in recent years.
State government needs to become more efficient and less costly.
One sure way to make that happen is to reduce the rate of growth in government. Some have said we cut taxes before and just had to raise them again when times got tough. That's reasonable, it's fair and it can help us grow.