It’s no secret that Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is a tax-and-spender — spending has jumped 31% since she took office in 2019 — but she could at least be honest with her veto of a $1.4 billion tax relief package in SB 169.
Kelly says a flat tax, which costs about $335 million annually, is not fiscally responsible. But her special education funding proposal costs $1.1 billion over the next five years, with an annual cost of $362 million when fully implemented. Kelly is consciously misleading Kansans on the budgetary impact of SB 169, according to Kansas Legislative Research. The state is expected to finish the next fiscal year with a $3 billion surplus AFTER the first year that SB 169 is implemented. She clearly understands that taxes matter, which is why she is so willing to hand out billions in subsidies to companies like Panasonic (and get to take credit for it.)
She is also scaremongering and not telling the truth when she claims that “public schools would be the first to take a hit should this bill become law.” School funding didn’t decline (contrary to what media and others claimed) during the Brownback tax cuts, according to the Kansas Department of Education, and it can continue to grow beyond the current $17,000 per student school districts receive. (The small decline in 2016 was due to a KPERS pension payment being deferred to 2017.) What’s more, the only actual cuts to K-12 spending were implemented during Democrat Mark Parkinson’s administration, which Governor...
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