Laura Kelly

Kansas loses private-sector jobs for third month in a row 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 26, 2023
Once again, Kansas ranks in the bottom of the packet when it comes to monthly private-sector job growth. Last month, Kansas lost 500 jobs while 36 other states had growth or smaller losses. Though ebbing and flowing, this month’s poor results are part of Kansas’s four decades of slow economic growth that is causing people
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Kansas’s $1 billion Panasonic handout part of $100 billion in subsidies nationwide 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 11, 2023
2022 was the biggest year for multi-billion dollar megasubsidies in states across the country, including Kansas’s own $1 billion investment in Panasonic. The roughly $100 billion spent on state and local economic development subsidies across the country was more than the 11 smallest state budgets combined. Yet, these subsidies in Kansas and across the country
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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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Bill prohibiting state investment in ESG moves forward 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 14, 2023
Kansas’s months of discussing legislation regarding ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, criteria towards state governmental investing is on its way to Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk in the form of HB 2100. While the vote was a veto-proof majority in the Senate, it wasn’t in the House. Governor Kelly hasn’t given any indication of whether
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Kelly’s budget a malaise of meager tax cuts and hidden spending 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 16, 2023
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s recommended budget for fiscal year 2024 totals $24.1 billion across All Funds spending but falls short of providing substantive tax reform. Instead, it offers minor tax changes and large spending increases. Tax Reform Falls Short Kelly has called alternatives to her tax relief policies “irresponsible, reckless tax cuts that threaten our
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Viva la Flat Tax Revolution!0
- Tax & Spending
- November 23, 2022
In their November 2022 Revenue Estimate Report, the Consensus Estimating Group increased their estimate for FY 2023 state general fund receipts by 22.6% compared to April’s estimate, which equates to $9.7 billion total for the fiscal year. At the same time, the actual revenue intake for FY 2022 decreased by 10.6% compared to the estimates
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