Brownback Tax Plan, Kansas GOP Mocked

The national headlines were unkind to Governor Sam Brownback and his GOP compatriots this week. It seems the national media is catching on to the disaster that is the governor's tax plan that raises taxes on working Kansans to pay for tax breaks for the richest Kansans.

Here's a sampling:

All you need to know about Kansas politics: $777 million and $66 million

Last Sunday morning, the Kansas Legislature adjourned for the 2013 session and left a path of destruction in their wake.

TOPEKA – All but four members of the Kansas Senate voted early Sunday morning on a budget that cuts funding to the Department of Corrections by $7.3 million and reduces the budget for the judicial branch by $5.4 million. Three Senators were out of state while one, Senate Vice President Jeff King, went missing in action.

Brownback, Kansas GOP burn through $330K fighting over how best to raise Kansans taxes

The Kansas Legislature's overtime bill hit $330,000 today with no resolution on taxes or a budget. And Gov. Brownback and Kansas Republicans can only blame themselves for this wasteful spending.

Look at those names. Below is a list of Kansas House members (all Republican) who voted to raise taxes on hardworking Kansans. It’s time to stop hiding the facts and face the truth. The tax plan that these public servants call a “tax cut” would raise taxes on lower- and middle-income Kansans by $857 million over the next five years.

How are taxes going up? Here is a breakdown of what this plan would mean for you:

This week, Governor Brownback and his GOP allies made themselves clear: raising sales taxes on working Kansans is the only way forward.

You can add children to the growing list of groups less important to Gov. Sam Brownback than his tax breaks for billionaires and big business. That's because as part of his efforts to save the cratering Kansas budget, Gov. Brownback has proposed taking $9.5 million from an endowment fund set up to pay for early-childhood programs and transfer it to the state's all-purpose general fund to help balance his underwater budget.

You can add children to the growing list of groups less important to Gov. Sam Brownback than his tax breaks for billionaires and big business.