OCPA Impact To Focus Efforts On OK Income Tax Elimination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dave Bond, OCPA Impact Phone: 405.633.3475
Website: www.ocpaimpact.com
OCPA Impact Announces Launch
Goal to grow Oklahoma’s economy by reducing state’s penalty on work, restraining growth of government
OKLAHOMA CITY (DEC 16, 2013) — Today marked the formal public launch of OCPA Impact, Inc., a new organization focused on growing Oklahoma’s economy by lowering the burden of taxes and state government spending on Oklahoma families and job-creators.
As a 501(c)4 nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, OCPA Impact is designed to serve as an action partner to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, the state’s premier free-market think tank.
OCPA Impact will also partner with other organizations and individuals across Oklahoma who have an interest in sparking private-sector economic growth.
“We will employ a two-step approach for communicating these ideas from the people of Oklahoma and putting them into action,” said Mark Allen, chairman of OCPA Impact’s board of directors. “First, we’ll carry the message directly to state policymakers at the Capitol. Second, we’ll work to empower taxpayers and families with opportunities to motivate their local state legislators to keep moving Oklahoma in the right direction.
“Every day, we are expanding our organization’s presence and activity across the state, to all the major communities throughout Oklahoma, in order to get a full representation of the Oklahoma public as we present these ideas to state policymakers.”
Dave Bond, CEO of OCPA Impact, said the organization will work to see continued, responsible reductions in Oklahoma’s income tax rate, as well as thoughtful restraint in Oklahoma state government’s expenditure of taxpayer dollars.
“It is within Oklahoma’s ability to become the very best state in America to have a career, grow a business and provide for a family,” Bond said. “This should be the place our kids and grandkids want to stay because their opportunities here are as good and as plentiful as anywhere else. To get there, we must continue expanding economic freedom by reducing and eventually eliminating Oklahoma’s penalty on work, the state income tax.
“Oklahoma’s positive growth experience with income tax rate reductions over the past decade should give us confidence to continue on that path going forward. Keeping more money in the hands of the men and women who earned it in the first place is always a good idea. Time and again, it results in a growing, more diversified economy, new job creation and increased opportunity.”
For more about OCPA Impact, please visit ocpaimpact.com.
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