The one tax increase that seems to be making the most headway is on sales.
Everybody needs food and clothing, the thinking goes, and so should be the most fair.
That would be true if everybody were in the same income bracket. But that $4 gallon of milk takes a bigger chunk out of a $400 weekly paycheck as opposed to a $4,000 paycheck. In the first case, the wage-earner makes $20,000 a year; the second, $200,000.
In Kansas, food is taxed at 6.15 percent, to which Iola and the county tack on an additional 1 percent each.
Most states don’t tax…
Increased sales tax gains steam; but is anything but best
