Republicans in the Kansas House of Representatives hate Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly more than they want to help their constituents.
That’s the only conclusion after Tuesday’s morally degraded vote, when House members voted 48-74 against bringing a full food tax repeal bill to the floor. The GOP has claimed for years that it supports cutting sales taxes on food, but for some reason they’ve just never managed to do it. In past years, they’ve added it as a sweetener to corporate tax giveaways or just voted it down when proposed by Democrats.
What’s their reasoning this time?
Rep. Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita, told fellow Republicans “you’re not gonna want to cut these budgets. What do you think your schools are gonna say? I have never and I will not under any circumstances vote for a tax increase because you act irresponsibly.”