Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton "cautious" but supportive of income tax cut

Listen Frontier · Mar 7, 2025 · 21m

Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton is “100 percent on board” with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s proposed half-percent income tax cut – but it’s a cautious 100 percent.

Paxton told The Frontier that recent Board of Equalization figures, which show Oklahoma’s budget to be short of expectations following last year’s grocery tax cut, make him wary of the possibility of a return to the state’s budget woes of last decade.

“I can easily say I’m 100% in favor of an income tax cut,” Paxton told The Frontier.

But he also remembers when the state was facing a more than $1 billion budget deficit in…