“2. Support for education: In the first three months of 2016 alone the Governor and some policymakers proposed dismantling early education, approved a plan for K12 that shifts money from one pot to another, and cut higher education by $17 million. This comes after consecutive years of sweeps, cuts, and other gimmicks that have left our comprehensive education system struggling. If policymakers and the Governor support education, their actions in the last several years fail to reflect as much. And if we’re sincere about growing the Kansas economy, the place to start is with education…

“April Fools’ Day is a time for practical jokes, hoaxes, and other tricks. But since damaging, unaffordable tax changes were enacted in 2012, it feels like Kansas has been living one perpetual April Fools’ Day prank – except it’s not funny. Kansans have a choice – they can either remain on the receiving end of the joke played on us by proponents of the ‘March to Zero’ or they can call on policymakers to end the hoax that these tax changes will result in growth. It’s time to come to terms with the compounding evidence that these extreme changes cost all of us a prosperous future.” – See more at: http://realprosperityks.com/april-fools-day/.