(Original Post) Staff Kansas City Business Journal An analysis released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reveals that state taxes take a bigger toll on low- and…
By JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer Updated 7:18 am, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators will on Tuesday consider conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax proposals…
(Original Post) By PAUL KRUGMANPublished: January 27, 2013 Republicans have a problem. For years they could shout down any attempt to point out the extent to which their policies favored…
(Original Post) Jamelle Bouie January 24, 2013 Over the last two years, Governor Brownback has transformed the state in a laboratory for ultraconservative policies. Much like Bobby Jindal in Louisiana,…
(Original Post) By JOHN ELIGONPublished: January 23, 2013 TOPEKA, Kan. — President Obama stood on the steps of the Capitol in Washington on Monday afternoon and laid out an expansive…
(Original Post) Jan 8, 2013, 7:59am CST Updated: Jan 8, 2013, 8:33am CST Staff Kansas City Business Journal Missouri lawmakers are looking to Kansas for ways to increase taxes in…
As is the case in any state, Kansas revenue and budget circumstances vary from year to year depending on a number of factors, including the health of the economy, the…
(PDF of Original Post) By Pat Garofalo on May 31, 2011 at 10:15 am Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KS) has been pushing to implement what he calls “tax reform” in the…
By DAVE HELLING Talk about a tax break. While all the attention this summer was focused on the federal debt and tax policy in Washington, some lawmakers and activists closer…
October 7, 2011 by Bob Grover When President Obama released his most recent plan to create jobs and address the national deficit, he proposed that wealthy Americans and corporations should…
October 25, 2011 by John Pepitone and Christie Walton A new group wants Kansas to join nine other states that don’t have an individual income tax. Supporters claim states…
“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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
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…
(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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
