Sam Brownback's Kansas Tax Plan Would Hit The Impoverished Hardest

Kansas City Star:

The numbers paint a stark picture of the haves and have-nots in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's new tax plan.

More than a half million tax filers -- earning less than $25,000 a year -- will pay an average of $156 more in income taxes under the governor's plan to overhaul the state tax code. By contrast, roughly 21,000 taxpayers -- making more than $250,000 a year -- will see an average cut of $5,200 a year in their tax bills.

Read the whole story: Kansas City Star

Comments

[carlamariee]

06:27 PM on 01/18/2012

Hey Brownback, ask fellow governor Scott Walker how this sort of thing is working out for him in Wisconsin!

[mavpay]

04:41 PM on 01/18/2012

Sam Brownback is another Koch funded project.

[celtic08]

05:17 PM on 01/18/2012

yes he is!! the ppl there got what they deserved!

[sorrytobeakansan]

04:33 PM on 01/18/2012

*sigh* just another day in paradise. The folks here actually think that the state will pay more to help poor people. That money will end up in the Koch brothers pockets faster than you can say Dorothy.

Our young people are moving out of the state and no one knows why.

[Paige Keith]

07:34 PM on 01/18/2012

My family had been in Ks. since the Civil War, but I left 10 years ago and I'll never go back. I didn't even realize how bad it had become there until after I got out.

[sorrytobeakansan]

07:58 PM on 01/18/2012

It has been the last ten years that has shown the most radical tilt to the right. It started with creationism in the schools. It took way too long but the people behind it were thrown off of the school board. Then Brownback and his minions including the speaker who sent an e-mail one week with a racist remark about the First Lady and then a Scripture passage calling for the death of the President. Now this. I and my company along with the people I employ are likely leaving as well.

[SpeakupNation]

04:23 PM on 01/18/2012

“As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.”
― Woody Guthrie

[SpeakupNation]

04:21 PM on 01/18/2012

Governor Brownshirt wants to institute a feudal system. That puts him square into the GOP mainstream these days.

[celtic08]

05:18 PM on 01/18/2012

pretty sad but true!

[calloy]

04:12 PM on 01/18/2012

i feel sorry for kansas sometimes, then i remember who most of them voted for and it passes.

[Paisano]

04:02 PM on 01/18/2012

Of course... He's a Christian!

[sachazg]

03:43 PM on 01/18/2012

Is the GOP smoking crack? They realize there are more of us than them right?

[mummblemouth]

03:41 PM on 01/18/2012

From the article, "Jordan said that would bring in an extra $53 million in federal funds to assist low-income Kansans. Together, it adds up $113 million in new funding for low-income families.'

Okay, so these cons believe that Kansas, which already receives $1.12 for every $1 it pays in should, receive even more in wealth redistribution while simultaneously trying to reduce the amount of money the federal government spends? F'ing hypocritical scabs.

[Mile End]

03:56 PM on 01/18/2012

Not to mention, they're taking that money out of the pockets of the working poor in the first place. So that means instead of leaving the money with the low-income worker who earned it in the first place, the State will collect it, and the State will give it back in services to the poor of the State's choosing, with whatever conditions the State wishes to impose. But Republicans HATE income redistribution... unless that money is being funneled to the rich. Then they love it.

That group (earning under $25,000) made up of 564,328 tax filers, would pay $88.2 million more in taxes under the governor’s tax plan. Meanwhile, the highest income bracket making $250,000 a year would pay $110 million less in taxes.

Republicans govern for the rich. Period.

[slickbottom]

03:25 PM on 01/18/2012

Well it's Kansas after all. Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor and keep 'em voting Republican.

[celtic08]

05:19 PM on 01/18/2012

just like the TBR's like 'em!! F&F!

[Paige Keith]

07:43 PM on 01/18/2012

That's why I got out! Happy I live Hawaii!

[rgilley]

03:10 PM on 01/18/2012

Typical right wing ideology lower taxes on the richest and raise them on working middle class.
Of course the majority of working class do not even vote and inlies the problem. When you don't vote right wing ideolouges use your entire class as a sponge.

[mummblemouth]

03:45 PM on 01/18/2012

This plan is even more outrageous and sinister when you go on to read that they are saying the poor will actually benefit as the state then plans on milking the big evil federal government an additional $53 mil per year. Consider this in light of the fact that Kansas is already a welfare state that receives $1.12 for every $1 it pays in. BS cons.

[NVEd]

02:58 PM on 01/18/2012

Kansas used to bill itself as the Most Republican state in the nation well they can have it. I have been to Kansas and didn't see one thing which would make me want to ever return. The Kansas Repubs are just part of that.

[Phxflyer]

02:41 PM on 01/18/2012

Next on his agenda: a bill to take candy from babies.

[rgilley]

03:10 PM on 01/18/2012

"Better dead than red".!!

[celtic08]

05:21 PM on 01/18/2012

Absolutely!! F&F

[Phxflyer]

02:38 PM on 01/18/2012

It has become clear that republicans just don't know how to add or subtract, let alone understand higher math skills.

[DoTheMath]

02:44 PM on 01/18/2012

Republican politicians count on this. It helps them confuse people into voting against their own best interests.

[celtic08]

05:21 PM on 01/18/2012

yep..keep them dumb and uninformed!!
F&F!

[92102]

02:22 PM on 01/18/2012

As Gov Brownback raises state taxes on the poor and middle class, moronic voters in Kansas blame it on President Obama.

[celtic08]

05:22 PM on 01/18/2012

true! love your micro-bio!! F&F!