TABOR Fact Sheet: Kansas vs. Colorado
Estimated at 10.4 percent of income, Kansas’s state/local tax burden percentage ranks 14th highest nationally, well above the national average of 10.1 percent.
Kansas taxpayers pay $3,629 per-capita in state and local taxes.
Kansas ranks 32nd in the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index: Missouri (11th), Oklahoma (14th), and Colorado (8th).
Source: Tax Foundation
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights: GOOD FOR COLORADO…GOOD FOR KANSAS*
3-year average poverty rate, from 2002 to 2004
Colorado: 9.8 percent
Kansas: 10.7 percent
Change from 2003 to 2004
Colorado: .1 percent
Kansas: .7 percent
Since TABOR was enacted in Colorado in 1992:
Colorado ranks 3rd in population growth, Kansas ranks 36th.
Colorado ranks 3rd in personal income growth, Kansas ranks 41st.
In 1992
Colorado ranked 18th in per capita income
Kansas ranked 24th in per capita income
In 2003
Colorado ranked 9th in per capita income
Kansas ranked 28th. In per capita income
Colorado ranked 6th in per capita income growth
Kansas ranked 30th in per capita income growth
Since 1992
Colorado ranks 3rd in productivity growth
Kansas ranks 32nd in productivity growth
Prior to the passage of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in Colorado in 1992, economic growth in Colorado and Kansas was similar.
From 1980 to 1992:
Kansas per capita income growth ranked 47th, Colorado was 34th.
Kansas ranked 25th in population growth, Colorado ranked 13th.
Income
Kansas rank for per capita income in 1980 was #16, Colorado was #12
Kansas rank for per capita income in 2004 was #29, Colorado was #8
Median Household income
1984 rank: Kansas 14, Colorado 10
2004 rank: Kansas 36, Colorado 10
State Economic Productivity (Gross State Product)**
Economic growth from 1980 – 1992
Colorado rank #26
Kansas rank #43
Economic growth from 1993 – 2003
Colorado rank #3
Kansas rank #37
Job Growth**
June 04 to June 05 private sector job growth:
Colorado ranks #16
Kansas ranks #32
June 03 to June 05 private sector job growth:
Colorado ranks #21
Kansas ranks #34
Education* **
Kansas 2003 Spending Per Student ($) 7,454
Colorado 2003 Spending Per Student ($) 7,384
Kansas Bachelor’s degree or higher, persons age 25+, 2000 25.8 percent
Coloardo Bachelor’s degree or higher, persons age 25+, 2000 32.7 percent
*U.S. Census Bureau
*Bureau of Economic Analysis
*Standard & Poor’s
Courtesy of Americans For Prosperity, Kansas Chapter.