A majority of our legislature is willing to shortchange schools and other essential services to give a small percentage of Kansans a big tax break. Rep. Probst shared this explanation as well as some photos of things average Kansans won’t be able to afford to buy with the 75-cent reduction they would get from the flat tax. “According to numbers from the Kansas Department of Revenue there are 1,280,574 income tax returns by Kansas residents. Of those, 48,881 report earning over $250,000 a year – less than 4 percent of all tax filers in the state. Yet that...
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Kansas legislature passes massive flat tax bill; opposents favors alternative tax cut proposals
The House and Senate passed Brownback 2.0-a flat tax that gives more to wealthy Kansans and jeopardizes state funding for schools and other essential services. It’s what “leadership” and their funders want, so they passed it. Governor Kelly is expected to veto the bill, so stay tuned. The vote counts (25-11 in the Senate and 81-37 in the House were shy of veto override numbers.) Also remember this vote when election postcards come out. Most if not all of the legislators voting against this bill support an alternative tax cut that doesn’t have the flat tax, but they...
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Leave a Comment Calls for action on flat tax bill; Tax policy is directly related to education funding
Urge your House Representative to vote NO on the flat tax. They’ve held no committee hearings on it this year, but they already rammed the flat tax through the Senate and we expect the House to vote on it today. The flat tax benefits wealthy Kansans the most and will jeopardize school funding as it cuts state revenue an EXTRA $500 million per year above Gov. Kelly’s proposed tax cut. Median income Kansans would get 75 CENTS of the $500 million. This is Brownback 2.0, and we don’t want to go back. Tax policy is directly related to...
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Leave a Comment Facing a veto, school choice legislation facing a climb this session
We remain wary that voucher bills will still find their way into committees and onto chamber floors this session and urge you stay vigilant and continuing to educate yourselve and others on how harmful they are. As 2024 elections approach, also please understand that the reason we don’t have the ESA in Kansas yet is that we have a governor who understands how bad they are, and enough legislators to block a veto override even though there is a Republican supermajority. If we lose some of the pro-public education legislators in 2024, that could change in the 2025...
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