HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Game On team, we are giving you a homework assignment for this weekend. Please send a thank you to your legislators who voted in favor of Sub HB 2178. It is never easy for legislators to vote to raise taxes, but we have seen that the tax cut experiment in Kansas has been a failure, and we have an immediate need to restore fiscal sanity to our state. We need to be able to fund our schools based on what we need rather than what we can afford under unreasonably restrained revenue. This legislature is working...
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Senate passes comprehensive tax reform bill (Sub HB 2178)
The tax bill to start the process of getting Kansas out of its current economic crisis passed the Senate today after passing the House yesterday. It now goes to Governor Brownback’s desk. He can sign it, veto it, or just not sign it in which case it becomes law without his signature. In the Senate, the final vote was 22-18. Please thank the following Senators who voted yes: Berger, Billinger, Bollier, Doll, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Givens, Goddard, Haley, Hardy, Hawk, Hensley, Kelly, Kerschen, Longbine, McGinn, Pettey, Rogers, V. Schmidt, Skubal, Sykes, Taylor The following Senators voted no. Are they...
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Here’s the latest on the “Opportunity Scholarship” neo-voucher program in North Carolina. “The athletic director of a private religious school that has received the most publicly-funded school vouchers in the state of North Carolina was arrested this week on charges of embezzling from the school nearly $400,000 in public tax dollars, the Fayetteville Observer reports. “Heath Curtis Vandevender is charged with embezzling $388,422 between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2015, from Truth Outreach Center Inc., located in Fayetteville. Trinity Christian School, which has received nearly $1 million in publicly-funded school vouchers since 2014, is under the Truth Outreach...
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Leave a Comment Kansas House passes tax fix (Sub HB 2178)
The House passed a tax plan (Sub HB 2178) that will help Kansas fund its schools 76-48. We support this bill as way to help restore fiscal sanity and appropriate school funding to our state. Please thank those voting yes: Alford, Baker, Ballard, Becker, Bishop, Brim, Campbell, Carlin, Carmichael, Clayton, Concannon, Cox, Crum, Curtis, Deere, Dierks, Dietrich, Elliott, Eplee, Finney, Francis, Frownfelter, Gallagher, Gartner, Helgerson, Henderson, Hibbard, Highberger, Hineman, Holscher, Jennings, Johnson, Judd-Jenkins, Karleskint, Kelly, Kessinger, Koesten, Kuether, Lewis, Lusk, Lusker, Markley, Miller, Murnan, Neighbor, Ohaebosim, Orr, Ousley, Parker, Patton, Phelps, Phillips, Pittman, Proehl, Rafie, Ralph, Rooker, Ruiz, Sawyer,...
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