Vox: Bobby Jindal and Sam Brownback’s Ridiculous Tax Gimmicks, Explained
media mentionBrownback has been defiant. “Some would have you believe this bill represents a tax increase, and that is not accurate,” the governor said last week. “When looked at in totality, from 2012 to 2015, as I said at the outset, Kansans are paying less in taxes and continuing to move off income taxes to consumption-based taxes.”
That point is a revealing one — because, according to an analysis by the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the bottom 40 percent of Kansans by income will, on average, be paying a higher percentage of their income in taxes than they were in 2012. Meanwhile, middle-class Kansans will be paying slightly less, and the top 1 percent of Kansans will be paying, on average, 1.9 percent less: