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Tax Change Recap 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 1, 2017
KLRD 2012-2015 tax change recapREAD MORE
Government’s Entitlement Mentality – Part 2 0
- Education, Tax & Spending
- November 29, 2016
Government efforts to justify higher taxes while already spending more than necessary to provide essential services amounts to a direct assault on individuals’ economic freedom, and that’s what the Kansas Association of School Boards did last week. The first installment of their three-part series attempted to make the case that Kansas’ personal income is growing
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States That Spend Less Tax Less 0
- Tax & Spending
- November 4, 2016
Media and legislators constantly present Kansans with the false choice between paying higher taxes to bankroll more government spending or risking cuts to desired public services. But many states continue to show that it is possible to maintain both a low-tax environment and quality public services. The key to doing so lies in states controlling
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September Jobs Numbers Show Kansas Continuing To Become More Competitive Post-Tax Reform 0
- Tax & Spending
- November 2, 2016
Kansas has a long history of trailing 50-state average job growth, but—as the adjacent table shows—it has become gradually more competitive in the four years since 2012 than it was in the fourteen years prior to 2012. Private sector jobs grew almost twice as fast over the last four years (3.6 percent vs 2.0) and
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