ACTION ALERT: Urge Governor Brownback to let the tax bill, passed by bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate, become law. This is our best chance at getting out of our current fiscal crisis and providing adequate funding for our schools and other essential state functions. Click here to send an email: https://governor.kansas.gov/serving-kansans/constituent-services/legislation-and-policy-issues/, or call 877-579-6757. PLEASE SHARE! Originally posted on Facebook 2/21/17....
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Homework assignment: thank you letters to legislators voting for tax bill
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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Leave a Comment 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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Leave a Comment North Carolina “Opportunity Scholarship” school involved in embezzling case
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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