“When the ALEC’s cash-for-kids model is put before the voters, it is resoundingly rejected. In 27 statewide referenda on the topic, voters rejected vouchers on average 2-1. But as long as ALEC ‘models’ continue to garner bipartisan support facilitated by corporate campaign contributions or are slipped into state budgets in...
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No comments Monthly Archives: May 2014
ALEC meeting in Kansas City fitting given ALEC followers in and associated with KS legislature
ALEC came to Kansas City! It’s fitting that they’ve chosen to hold their conference at the Kansas border since Senate President Susan Wagle and House Speaker Ray Merrick are both on the board, many legislators are members and Kansas Policy Institute president Dave Trabert is on the Tax and Fiscal...
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No comments Response to tax cuts changes from business will increase revenue to we just need to cut more expenses
“Rep. Richard Carlson, chairman of the House tax committee, said he thinks the state needs to concentrate more on reducing spending. He said the state needs to let the private sector grow faster than government so it produces more money for government services. ‘We have the revenue. It’s an expenditure...
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No comments Moody’s downgrades Kansas, Masterson and Donovan not concerned
Ty Masterson’s not concerned, and Sen. Donovan implies they’ll just cut more spending. We’re very concerned. “Citing a sluggish recovery from the recession, risk inherent in the governor’s tax plan and uncertainty over the Legislature’s ability to keep cutting spending, one of the nation’s two major debt rating agencies downgraded...
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