Ganon Evans

Kansas collects higher state tax per capita than average 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 8, 2023
The KLRD’s recently released budget profile predicted a massive $3 billion ending surplus in FY 2024 even AFTER the potential tax relief from implementing a flat tax in Kansas. Even more, this doesn’t include an additional $1.6 billion in the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund. Yet, this bill and other commonsense tax reforms failed to get
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Kansas slips into second straight month of job loss 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 28, 2023
Last night, the Kansas senate failed to overrule Governor Kelly’s veto of SB 169, a bill that would have established a flat tax and sped up the elimination of the food sales tax amongst other forms of relief. It’s disappointing that with a massive $3 billion predicted budget surplus in FY 2024 WITH SB 169
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Governor Kelly vetoes tax relief amidst budget surplus 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 24, 2023
This morning, Governor Kelly vetoed SB 169, a tax package that includes provisions to flatten the income tax and eliminate the food sales tax. The legislature will have the chance to override it with a two-thirds majority vote in each chamber. Instead, Kelly proposed a rebate of $450 per person over the summer totaling $800
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Rich States Poor States: Kansas ranked 39th in economic performance 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 19, 2023
While other states’ economies grow, Kansas’s continues to stagnate. In the recently released Rich States Poor States study for 2023, Kansas ranked 39th across all states on economic performance from 2011 to 2021. The most glaring issue was that Kansas ranked 42nd in non-farm employment growth. Over the decade, Kansas’s growth in this metric was
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