The conservative-leaning Tax Foundation explains some of our concerns about the newly-passed tax plan. Education funding in Kansas is still not adequate or stable and may not be for the foreseeable future. “Some elements of this package are good tax policy. But overall, it is a grab bag of ideas that does little to address the problems underlying Kansas’s tax and budgetary instability. Absent more fundamental changes, legislators will likely have to return in coming years to address budget gaps.” Read more here: http://taxfoundation.org/blog/kansas-approves-tax-increase-package-likely-will-be-back-more....
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Schools to face further budget cuts
“Said Rep. Greg Lewis, R-St. John: ‘Kansans who wanted real revenue reform lost today. Big corporate special interests won out at the expense of my constituents and hard-working Kansans, and important priorities like schools will still face further budget cuts. The sun is not shining in our state.’” Read more here: http://www.hutchnews.com/opinion/editorials/opinion-trickery-and-coercion-leave-kansas-in-state-of-dysfunction/article_9994dbc4-3c54-5afa-a183-716f08cbe2a8.html?hash=239a604deac28bd6f007ffe627cd55e7&site=hutchinson70...
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Leave a Comment Senate passes tax bill “trailer” June 12th
The Senate has passed the tax bill. 21-19. The governor will sign it. Technically this vote was on the “trailer” to the tax bill as the Senate had already passed the tax bill. It was the final step in passage of the tax bill package, which included passage by the House and Senate of the tax bill itself (HB 2109) and the “trailer” (SB 270) which amended certain provisions in the original tax bill. Here’s the vote count. Yea – (21): Abrams, Arpke, Bowers, Bruce, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Kerschen, King, Knox, LaTurner, Longbine, Love, Lynn, Masterson, Olson, Ostmeyer,...
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Leave a Comment Sobbing legislators highlight problems with tax bill and process
Oh, how we wish school funding and the timing of school board elections weren’t decided by the legislature and that our legislature would obey the courts. Since that is not the case, over the past few years many of us have evolved from people who barely paid attention to politics to those who watch the legislature carefully, listening to proceedings live and following Twitter at all hours. What we’ve seen is deeply disturbing. We agree with this editorial. “The image of a grown legislator sobbing in the middle of the night would be poignant if it weren’t so...
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