Tax & Spending

Kansas lost private-sector jobs in April 0
- Tax & Spending
- June 1, 2021
The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Kansas lost 1,300 private-sector jobs in April. Three other states in the region – Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arkansas – also lost jobs, while Missouri, Colorado and Texas had job gains. Every regional state remains below private employment levels reported two years ago in AprilREAD MORE
2021 Green Book: States that spend less, tax less…and grow more 0
- Tax & Spending, Tax & Spending Research
- May 14, 2021
The Legislature’s override of Governor Kelly’s veto of SB 50 will finally allow Kansans to enjoy the full benefit of the 2017 federal tax cuts, and our 2021 Green Book puts the importance of tax cuts in perspective. The relationship between the size of government and economic growth is as true today as we firstREAD MORE
Subsidies give Kansas the highest effective tax rates on mature businesses 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 6, 2021
Some state and local officials believe that subsidies – taxpayer handouts to a few, select businesses – are the way to grow an economy, but most people know that picking winners is, by default, also picking losers. A new study from the Tax Foundation makes that crystal clear. “Tax burdens in Kansas are slightly below
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Kelly admin consciously deceived legislators, taxpayers 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 30, 2021
An Open Records request and public pressure from KPI and our media outlet, the Sentinel, compelled Governor Laura Kelly’s Department of Revenue to tacitly confirm that they consciously deceived legislators and taxpayers. As the Sentinel first reported, Kelly’s Secretary of Revenue Mark Burghart and her Budget Director Adam Proffitt made an unsubstantiated claim on March
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PRO Act is another Biden middle class tax increase 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 30, 2021
President Joe Biden promised to not increase taxes on the middle class, but his gift to organized labor, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), has the same impact as a tax increase on millions of Americans. The PRO Act does not protect anyone’s right to organize; those rights already exist. Quite the
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Truth in Taxation is a model for legislative change 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 26, 2021
Forcing local officials to be honest about the entire property tax increase they impose will save taxpayers hundreds of millions over time because city council members and county commissioners know they won’t stay in office if they vote for the big increases they quietly imposed in the past. My recent joint column with my colleague
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