Kansas
Kansas Action for Children: Kansas Tax Reform in 2012: What does it mean for children and families?
December 17, 2012
“One of the defining issues of the 2012 Kansas legislative session was tax policy. Ultimately, the package of tax changes enacted by lawmakers will negatively impact Kansas children and families in a number of ways. • State revenues will be dramatically reduced – affecting available funding for necessary services such as education, the social safety […]
Equitities: Corporate Tax Dodgers Spending Big on CEO Pay, Lobbyists
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) January 25, 2012 The release of Mitt Romney’s tax return has renewed a debate that Warren Buffett raised last year when he pointed out that, because of the way income from investments is taxed, he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary. President Obama further called attention to this issue by inviting […]
Think Progress: Kansas Conservatives Move Bill That Raises Taxes On The Poor While Cutting Them For The Rich
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Pat Garofalo on Feb 24, 2012 at 3:35 pm In what one state Democrat has called “Robin Hood in reverse,” Kansas’ tax committee this week approved a bill that would cut taxes on the wealthiest Kansans to the tune of $1,500, while raising taxes on those residents making less that $25,000 per […]
Wichita Eagle: Laffer’s claims about taxes, growth are empty
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By William T. Terrell Published Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at 5:25 p.m.Updated Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at 5:26 p.m. It’s amazing that economist Arthur Laffer is having a great impact on attempts to alter Kansas individual income taxes, and that neither Gov. Sam Brownback nor Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan has arranged for a […]
Lawrence World Journal: Brownback active in promoting agenda
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Scott Rothschild April 2, 2012 Tax-cut proposals harmful, group says The League of Women Voters of Kansas issued a news release critical of Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax-cutting plan as well as two major proposals in a House-Senate conference committee. All three plans reduce income tax rates and eliminate income taxes on nonwage […]
Kansas Reporter: Will KS plan cut taxes or just shift them?
December 17, 2012
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2012 By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback and state lawmakers say they want to cut income taxes. So what? tax mavens say. The state government will get its money. Somewhere. Somehow. “True tax reform has to be a combination of reduced tax rates and spending […]
The Wichita Eagle: League of Women Voters speaks out against Kansas income tax plans
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By BRENT D. WISTROMEagle Topeka bureau Published Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 5:33 p.m. TOPEKA — The League of Women Voters of Kansas, usually noted for their opposition to laws they feel create barriers to voting, stepped out late last week against the two income tax reduction bills being debated by House and […]
The Hutchinson News: DC group criticizes Kan. plan for cutting taxes
December 17, 2012
Published: 5/8/2012 10:01 PM | Last update: 5/8/2012 10:01 PM TOPEKA – A Washington think tank says a tax-cutting package in the Kansas Legislature would shift part of the tax burden to the state’s poorest residents. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy is a research group that advocates for progressive tax codes. The group […]
Topeka Capital Journal: Senate poised for vote on tax bill
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Posted: May 9, 2012 – 11:44am By Tim CarpenterTHE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The Senate takes up a controversial income-tax reduction compromise Wednesday labeled by Republicans as a fair piece of legislation and by Democrats as damaging to the working poor. The measure pending before the Senate would drop individual state income tax rates and phase […]
Associated Press: Kan. Senate leaders expect close vote on tax cuts
December 17, 2012
By John Hanna Associated Press / May 9, 2012 TOPEKA, Kan.—Members of the Kansas Senate expected their vote to be close Wednesday on proposed income and sales tax cuts, with critics pointing to a national think tank’s analysis that the plan would shift part of the state’s tax burden from its wealthiest residents to its […]
CBS News: Kan. lawmakers pass tax cuts, but more work seen
December 17, 2012
May 10, 2012 11:10 AM TOPEKA, Kan. — Massive tax reductions cleared the Kansas Legislature on Wednesday, but even as Gov. Sam Brownback and his conservative Republican allies marked a political victory, they scrambled to start containing possible future budget problems. The House narrowly approved a bill to cut income and sales taxes by an […]
Associated Press: Kan. governor signs massive income tax cuts bill amid debate over potential for budget crisis
December 17, 2012
JOHN HANNA Associated Press Last Updated: May 22, 2012 – 5:18 pm TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed massive income tax cuts into law Tuesday, expressing confidence they would boost the economy and not create future budget problems or shift the state’s tax burden to the poor. “Today’s legislation will create tens of […]
Truthout: States to Residents- Forget Promises to Restore School Funding
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Saturday, 09 June 2012 11:12 By Mike Alberti, Remapping Debate | News Analysis When Wichita Public Schools Superintendent John Allison learned that, thanks to rising revenues, Kansas was projected to have a budget surplus of more than $300 million at the end of the year – the state’s first surplus since the recession […]
Bloomberg: States Lacking Income Tax Get No Boost in Growth
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Brian Chappatta on June 25, 2012 Governors seeking to expand their economies by eliminating income taxes find little support for the idea in the record of U.S. states that lack such a levy. The BGOV Barometer shows the nine states with the highest personal income taxes on residents outperformed or kept pace […]
New York Times: No Income Tax? No Boost.
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) June 26, 2012, 3:52 pmBy JULIET LAPIDOS This past February, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin announced a plan to phase out her state’s income tax over ten years. “We’re going to have the most pro-growth tax system in the region,” she said, according to The Wall Street Journal. Lawmakers in Kansas and Missouri have […]
Salon: Supply-side guru- Wrong again
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) More evidence that cutting taxes does not automatically lead to prosperityBy Andrew LeonardTuesday, Jun 26, 2012 11:11 AM EDT There are so many nails in the coffin containing supply-side economics that it’s hard to find room for another one, but with yet another Republican presidential candidate chanting the mantra coined by Ronald Reagan’s […]
NPR’s State Impact: Recent Study Questions “New Hampshire Advantage”
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) June 29, 2012 | 11:23 AMBy Emily Corwin A couple of weeks ago, Arthur Laffer — an economist made famous for his work in the Reagan administration — co-wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal warning that the expiration of federal tax cuts in January puts the country on the verge […]
New York Times: To Cut Taxes or Keep Services- 2 States Act as Test Cases
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By MICHAEL COOPERPublished: July 10, 2012 OCEAN CITY, Md. — As state governments begin to emerge from the long downturn, many are grappling with a difficult choice: should they restore some of the services and jobs they were forced to cut after the recession or cut taxes in the hopes of bolstering their […]
Capital Gazette: Marylanders have a lot riding on tax policy
December 17, 2012
Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:30 am | Updated: 1:25 pm, Fri Jul 13, 2012. In an interesting article this week, The New York Times used Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sam Brownback, the Republican governor of Kansas, as examples of the contrasting Democratic and Republican approaches to state spending, now that revenue is […]
The Nation: ‘We Can’t Afford It’: The Big Lie About Medicaid Expansion
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Richard Kim on July 20, 2012 – 10:47 AM ET In his letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejecting the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas Governor Rick Perry tells a whopper. Expanding Medicaid, he writes, would “threaten even Texas with financial ruin.” Texas has the highest […]
The Hays Daily News: Childhood poverty
December 17, 2012
Published on -11/25/2012, 9:37 AM Kansas First Lady Mary Brownback has accepted a difficult responsibility. As unofficial adviser to a task force studying ways to reduce childhood poverty in the state, she might be required eventually to deliver bad news to her husband. It all depends on how seriously the governor-appointed panel accepts its task. […]
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback recently signed into law Senate Substitute for HB 2117, a tax bill that dramatically changes the Kansas income tax structure. The legislation will cut taxes by over $760 million a year but will actually increase taxes on some lowand middle-income families. This report describes the legislation and its impact on working […]
Latest Kansas Tax Bill Carries $680 Million Price Tag and Raises Taxes on Those Least Able to Pay
May 17, 2012 • By Meg Wiehe
A joint House-Senate conference committ ee is poised to approve a revised version of the tax bill recently sent to the Governor by the House of Representatives. An Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) analysis of the agreed-upon tax bill shows that it would reduce state tax collections by about $680 million a year, […]
Three Strategies for Making Enacted Kansas Tax Plan Less Unfair and Less Costly
May 10, 2012 • By Meg Wiehe
Yesterday, the Kansas House of Representatives passed, and sent to Governor Sam Brownback, a tax plan, Senate Substitute for House Bill 2117, that had been previously ratified by the state Senate. A number of lawmakers in both houses have expressed dismay at the projected long-term cost of the bill, and the governor has indicated that […]
Kansas Tax Bill Would Cost $600 Million a Year While Hiking Taxes on Low-Income Families
May 8, 2012 • By Meg Wiehe
Kansas legislators are set to vote on a tax bill recently approved by a joint House-Senate conference committee. An ITEP analysis of the agreed-upon tax bill shows that it would reduce state tax collections by close to $600 million a year, while actually increasing taxes on many low- and middle-income Kansans. The conference committee plan […]
