By Rich Fisher
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Tulsa, OK – On this edition of StudioTulsa, we revisit a topic that we addressed a few days ago on our program --- namely, the eight proposals on tax policy that were officially recommended at the end of 2011 by the state's Task Force on Comprehensive Tax Reform. We had State Senator Mike Mazzei (R-Tulsa) on ST last week to talk about these proposals; he's a co-chair of this task force. Today, our guest is David Blatt, director of the non-partisan Oklahoma Policy Institute, which is a think tank that works to offer ideas and analysis of various policies and issues affecting our state. (For more about this organization, see okpolicy.org.) Blatt tells us that he has problems with the thrust of the task force's recommendations, adding that the proposals amount to a tax hike for the bottom half of Oklahoma's tax-payers --- and an overall economic benefit for the state's wealthiest citizens.