Gov. Mary Fallin says state budget woes not indicative of economic climate

Gov. Mary Fallin spent 32 minutes Tuesday assuring a Tulsa Regional Chamber luncheon that Oklahoma’s economy is performing better than recent state revenue failures might suggest.

Investment is up, Fallin said. Businesses are expanding. The labor force is growing.

Which raises the question: If the economy is doing so well, why isn’t tax revenue keeping pace?

That, really, was Fallin’s point. Or one of them.

“In the end, the fact of the matter remains that we have a structural problem in how we budget our state money,” Fallin told the crowd, announced at more than 1,000.

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