YEARS OF TAX CUTS, ABOUT TO KICK KANSANS IN THE ASS
"... A friend who serves in the Legislature asked the state’s research team to figure out how much all the costs of all the tax cuts have totaled since 1995. The cumulative impact on Kansas, the study finds, is a loss of $7.6 billion in revenue during that period. We are now losing about $600 million a year from tax cuts. That would have put us in the black this coming year and go a long way toward reducing the billion dollar budget forecast in the following year. ..." Read more about the list of tax-cuts enacted here.
If that wasn't enough, Kansans, $2.65/hour does not a worker make:
"... That's absolutely correct- the more money in the pockets of low income folk, the better off the economy is. That's how we rebuild the Middle Class. In reality, the Kansas minimum wage is superseded by the federal minimum wage in almost every case- we're talking about the few thousand Kansas who are employed as waitstaff and care workers for children, the elderly and the infirm, along with employees on small farms. While there aren't hundreds of thousands of people forced by circumstance to live off of $5,500 a year, there are far more than their should be, and we, as a people, shouldn't allow that to continue. ..." Read more.
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