Hope that budget impasse includes second thoughts

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May 30, 2013 - 12:00 AM

Not to sound suspicious, but the governor’s tax plan seems a tad self-serving — as in the 2016 election.
Gov. Brownback maintains a reduction in income tax rates will benefit the state by freeing up money otherwise bound by taxes. All that extra cash Kansans are enjoying is being invested in new business models, he says.
Trouble is, the plan is on track to bankrupt the state.
Let’s do the math.
If the increase in the state sales tax remains, along with the elimination of many standard deductions on state income tax forms,…

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