And so the game continues. Instead of “cuts”, we can expect “efficiencies” and changes to weightings and the formula per Rep. Hoffman and Sen. Abrams while waiting for thousands of jobs to come flooding into Kansas. What are your legislators saying? “State legislators from Sumner County defended the tax cuts...
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Brownback targets KPERS funds
“But they’re unlikely to be heard or even considered, based on comments from House Speaker Ray Merrick, the Stilwell Republican closely aligned with the governor who recently unleashed this gem: ‘Government employees produce nothing. They’re a net consumer. And you got that cost forever and ever and ever because they’re...
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“There are those in Kansas who are giddy at the idea of making up a billion-dollar deficit by ‘living within our means.’ “To them — and I am including the think tank Kansas Policy Institute, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, the vast majority of legislators and the governor himself —...
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The 2015 legislative session is coming, and with it we expect to see the continuing claim that our Kansas schools are failing. So, in addition to pointing out why we need more funding, and the dangers of the education “reforms” that will be pushed, we will also highlight some of...
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