From our friends at Johnson County Educators: This is, for the most part, the same bill passed by the Senate earlier this week. It is still the largest tax increase in Kansas history and will be shouldered by the middle and working classes. It still contains the tax credit “scholarship”/voucher provision. Also, the bill contains no rollback at all of the exemption of 300,000+ businesses from having to pay any income tax. Please contact your House representative now and encourage them to vote “no”. Read about where things stand here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article23685964.html....
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House to debate and vote on tax bill tonight
The House will debate and vote on their tax proposal which is very similar to the Senate version. Here’s the conference committee report: http://kslegislature.org/li/b2015_16/measures/sb270/ You can listen live here: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/; click on House-listen to live proceedings in the House....
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Leave a Comment Urge Representatives to vote no on current tax bill today
Today the House will probably vote on the tax bill the Senate passed yesterday. Please contact your Representative and ask him or her to vote no. They won’t be able to amend the bill at this point; it’s just a yes or no vote. The 117-page bill is problematic in many ways. It doesn’t address the fundamental tax imbalance which will result in additional problems next year when there aren’t as many funds to sweep; expands the corporate tax credit “scholarship” program; includes a “ratchet” which will prevent adequate recovery of school and other funding; removes the sales...
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Leave a Comment Summary of June 7 Senate tax bill
This article has a good summary of the tax bill passage by the Senate. http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article23432373.html...
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