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2022 Green Book: Spend Less, Tax Less, Grow More 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 31, 2022
Over the past year, legislators have painted a picture of Kansas as a booming economy, pointing to subsidized business development and continually high tax revenues – more a sign of over-taxation than prosperity – as indicators of growth. However, the data about Kansas’s economic performance relative to taxation in our 2022 Green Book tells a
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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

Choice benefits kids in Florida, Indiana, and Arizona while Kansas resists 0
- Education
- May 7, 2021
While Indiana is busy expanding school choice eligibility from 37,000 to 48,000 students, Kansas legislators are resisting even slight changes to existing school choice programs. What’s more, a Wall Street Journal editorial recently congratulated Indiana “for its leadership in establishing one of America’s most ambitious school voucher programs,” after the legislature expanded its primary school
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