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Small businesses pay for ineffective megasubsidies 0
- Tax & Spending
- February 7, 2023
Kansas has $2 billion in reserves and continues to exceed monthly revenue estimates, yet Governor Laura Kelly is quick to elicit the issues with the Brownback tax cuts whenever tax reform that isn’t her own arises. At the same time, she continues to distribute hundred-million dollar megasubsidies to corporations while small businesses and families miss
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Kansas ends 2022 without fully recovering to pre-pandemic jobs numbers 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 24, 2023
In December 2022, Kansas was still 2,700 private-sector jobs below its pre-pandemic numbers while 30 states have already fully recovered. Failing to achieve this benchmark while a majority of the country has is a sign that Kansas needs more than ineffective economic subsidies and lackluster tax policy to grow. The Bureau of Labor Statistics adjusts
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Kansas keeps getting duped by economic development schemes 0
- Tax & Spending
- November 9, 2022
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Kansas elected officials keep getting duped by economic development schemes, with politicians of both parties willing to give out hundreds of millions of dollars with poor oversight. Wichita and Coffey County are currently competing for a megaproject by Integra Technologies, with details about
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Panasonic subsidy deal: Laura Kelly’s ‘shot of adrenaline’ moment?0
- Tax & Spending
- July 13, 2022
Remember the (well-deserved) beating Gov. Sam Brownback received for saying his 2012 tax cuts would be a ‘shot of adrenaline’ to the Kansas economy? Now, Gov. Laura Kelly may have her own ‘shot of 'adrenaline' moment by claiming her $1 billion+ subsidy to Panasonic will transform the Kansas economy. The 2012 tax cuts would haveREAD MORE
2022 State of the State…With a Grain of Salt 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 13, 2022
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly gave her 2022 State of the State address this week to mark the beginning of this year’s legislative session. This speech, set against a backdrop of the ever-growing state revenue surplus, included many of the Governor’s already announced ideas and plans for what to do with the cash. In the speech,
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Oracle’s Acquisition of Cerner Signals Issues with Kansas Subsidies 0
- Tax & Spending
- December 22, 2021
The state of Kansas likely won’t see much benefit from this week’s announcement that the tech giant Oracle will purchase Kansas City’s largest employer, the healthcare company Cerner, for $28.3 billion. This is because in June of this year, Cerner began the move out of their Village West campus in Wyandotte County, laying off 500
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