Just when we thought the Republican Party was trying to take us back to the 1950s with their efforts to roll back civil rights, reinstitute Jim Crow-era voting laws and take Roe v Wade off the books, we find out that we misread their intentions by about 20 years.
Taxes, it goes without saying, are always too high. For years we’ve listened to complaints from some disgruntled taxpayers who use the mill levy to defend their argument. While it should go without saying that no two cities or counties are the same, that hasn’t prevented taxpayers from comparing apples to oranges when comparing mill levies.
Inflation! Inflation! Everyone’s talking about it, but ignoring one of its biggest causes: corporate concentration.
Jesus declared to them, “It is written: “My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.”
When hearing testimony about the prospect of the state requiring franchise fees be paid by streaming services, as is currently being done with cable companies, it was as if some Kansas legislators were learning Government Funding 101 for the first time.
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