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The application of the payroll deduction ban to charitable contributions shows its absurdity and its expected large impact on those receiving funds through payroll deductions. “United Way officials in Lawrence and throughout Kansas said they were stunned Thursday by news that a Senate committee had advanced a bill that would prohibit the state and local school districts from deducting charitable contributions from employee paychecks. “‘I’m a little floored here. I’m kind of speechless,’ said Colleen Gregoire, vice president and campaign director for the United Way of Douglas County… “The panel then put the contents of both bills into...

Silencing dissent, telling teachers they can’t choose how to handle their own payroll deductions; the power grab continues. “’We’re taking away the voluntary right to make contributions to the United Way, your unions, whatever it is. What are we coming to here?’ Holland said. ‘I view this Legislature as basically trying to suppress people’s freedom of assembly. We’re trying to take away who these folks want to associate with. I think this is patently wrong. I don’t know who’s behind this or what we’re trying to do.'” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article15348254.html...