Dave Rader Wants To Change Oklahoma Constitution On Taxes

  The former football coach who now sits in the Oklahoma Senate now wants to end an arrangement that his legislature has seldom ever exercised. He wants to raise our taxes without asking our permission.  He posts rarely on social media, but he took the time and effort this past week to make his point.
  In common theme with so many progressive arguments, he compares Oklahoma to the other states and declares us yet again to be 49th, in his way of thinking.

He also borrows from his football vernacular to say;
"Today was a first experience. Much of my professional life has been very public and illuminated by a scoreboard. But, today was the first time to be part of a team that out scored the competition 37-5, and 71-28, and lost."

I still remember 1992. And Coach Rader was a good coach back then. But I remember the horrible abuse of power that Speaker Steve Lewis House chamber was orchestrating when they passed the HB1017 massive taxes and education spending. That bill was promised to end once & for all, our lack of educational resources.
​  The people revolted and circulated a petition to place a constitutional amendment before the voters. It simply says;

For several years Dave Rader was a player, and then coach of the Tulsa Hurricane.

  "The people of Oklahoma no longer trust the legislature to constrain themselves, and we therefor will decide how much is enough taxes."

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•   The current legislature is as bad as the 1992 incarnation was. They don't even talk about asking the voters to make tax reforms any more.
• They are 25 years late on asking us for a state constitutional convention, as the current charter requires of them.
•   They had the gaul to tell us that a tax is really a membership in a cessation program of whatever activity it is that they slap a confiscatory levi upon.

  We voters think the playbook is just fine, and the team at Lincoln Blvd. ought to use the book more fully, before throwing it out.
  How do you know the play is bad when you never call it up or even  practice it?  What other forms of democracy will we lose by senatorial fiat? the right to vote for millage? the right to pass capitol improvement bonds? The right to select our representatives & senators?
  If ever there was a time to protect  & be protected by the constitutional stipulations of confiscating our sustenance for life, it is now. This legislature is as bad as the 1991 legacy.