Category: Kansas state government
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Spending on roads in Kansas
A look at actual spending on Kansas highways, apart from transfers.
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Again, KPERS shows why public pension reform is essential
Proposals in the Kansas budget for fiscal year 2018 are more evidence of why defined-benefit pension plans are incompatible with the public sector.
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Understanding job growth and the Kansas tax reforms
Commissioned by Kansas Policy Institute and written by researchers from Arizona State University, a new report looks at the Kansas economy after the tax reforms passed in 2012.
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Benefits of tax cuts without raising debt
President-elect Donald Trump should learn from Kansas’s mistake on income-tax reduction — don’t reduce revenue and increase spending.
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From Pachyderm: Legislative Agendas for 2017
From the Wichita Pachyderm Club this week: Representatives of local governments presented issues important to them in the upcoming session of the Kansas Legislature.
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No one is stealing* from KPERS
No one is stealing from KPERS, the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. But there are related problems.
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The plan to raise your taxes that can’t be found
A coalition of Kansas advocacy groups wants to raise your taxes, but the plan is difficult to find.
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Gary Sherrer and Kansas Policy Institute
A former Kansas government official criticizes Kansas Policy Institute.
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Decoding Duane Goossen
The writing of Duane Goossen, a former Kansas budget director, requires decoding and explanation. This time, his vehicle is “Rise Up, Kansas.”
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Did the Kansas Supreme Court read these cases?
The merit system of judicial selection in Kansas has sprung a leak, finds the United States Supreme Court.
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How would higher Kansas taxes help?
Candidates in Kansas who promise more spending ought to explain just how higher taxes will — purportedly — help the Kansas economy.
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Kansas Democrats: They don’t add it up — or they don’t tell us
Kansas Democrats (and some Republicans) are campaigning on some very expensive programs, and they’re aren’t adding it up for us.