KWCH: Brownback Says Tax Plan is Not an Increase, Critics Disagree
media mention“The vast majority of 2.8 million Kansans are doing worse,” Ward said. “They’ve had their taxes increased twice in the last three years.”
Ward said the sales tax increases in recent years have outweighed any income tax cuts meaning poor people are paying more.
A study from The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy out of Washington D.C. said as a result of tax changes between 2012 and 2015, Kansans with the lowest income will pay $197 more in taxes while Kansans in the top one percent will pay $24,632 less.