OK, I live in Kansas. This is not the lowest taxed state around neither is it the highest. But proud to be lib juice box primitive fails to tell the whole story (amazing eh). OK, here is the basics. The Govenor wants a 1% increase for 3 years (last time a tax increase was ever taken off the books? Any one, any one, Buller?). This is to cover educational costs.
Parkinson, a 1980 WSU graduate, said the state already has cut about $1 billion out of its roughly $6 billion budget. Some of those cuts were needed and didn’t affect services, he said.
If these cuts did not affect services, why were they not done years ago? So in other words I have been paying state taxes for services not needed. Money back please!
Now, for anyone that has ever attended a state institution for higher learning, the kicker.
He said universities had laid off professors
If some of those professors actually taught a class (or 2) and if the TA's actually spoke english (I thought I would have to learn Hindu to get thru Physics lab in Arizona), or the profs did the labs, I would feel bad, but for people that think working 15 hours per week is a full time job, well.....
Medicaid is going to be cut by 500 million. Take illegals off the rolls and you will have half of that right a way. As for secondary education, there is talk thruout the various districts on cost cutting. There was talk about not being able to pay the teachers, funds for salaries for teachers go from my property taxes, to the county, to the state, to the districts for pay. (How much do you think that admisistrative cost adds to expenses?). There are
suites being filed by some districts thru out the state concerning the state holding money, but that has not happened yet.
And of course the state is going to raise the tax on cigs, after allowing bans on smoking in bars and such, but remember that cigarette taxes are the cure all for health care. Increase the cost of something, and eventually use will drop to zero. There goes the tax money, guess what, increase the sales tax. And to all you progressives. Sales taxes affect the poor more than the rich. A sales tax after essentials are purchased is a ELECTIVE TAX. If I do not want to pay the tax I don't buy the new Blue Ray or new flat screen. and only 1 dollar on a hundred dollars of groceries, but it is just not a 1% tax, it is an increase to the existing state and local sales
tax. And here is a local
sales tax ratechart.
As far as the juice box primitive, you can write a check to the state anytime that you want, feel free. I find it funny though how if George Bush suggests a 1% decrease in income taxes it is bad and you reject it out of hand, but you will willingly support a 1% increase in sales tax. dumb ass primitive.
And about the governor.
A former Republican, Parkinson rose to the governor’s office when Gov. Kathleen Sebelius resigned in 2009 to become U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services. Parkinson had served as lieutenant governor the previous two years.
