Former state Senate leader Cal Hobson offers his tax cut proposal

BY CAL HOBSON Published: May 11, 2012

This approach would mirror the 2002 bond issue that funded the National Weather Center in Norman and the sensor center in Stillwater. It also would view the interests of the state as a whole, just like we did when we passed the $500 million higher education bond issue of 2004. I was the principal author of both; if I could figure them out, surely the current bunch of elected officials at the Capitol can.

It only takes leadership and the willingness to look past the next election. I hope the governor and legislative leaders won't miss this chance. It will not come along again any time soon.

Hobson, of Lexington, spent 28 years in the Legislature and was Senate president pro tem from 2003 to 2005.

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