This article was originally posted 04/27/2023 on SUBV Facebook page
Kansas Senators Kellie Warren, Molly Baumgardner, and Rob Olson, and state Representatives Chris Croft, Carl Turner, and Sean Tarwater, voted to override Governor Kelly’s veto of the irresponsibly large tax cut bill championed by Americans For (Their Own) Prosperity...so we know we’ll see postcards “thanking” them for voting to lower your taxes. Fortunately for our kids’ schools, the veto override vote failed and we won’t be returning to revenue shortfall disasters this time around.
And you know AFP will postcard the legislators who said, Whoa, not so fast! You’ll get mailers claiming those legislators didn’t vote for a tax cut. Well, correct, because the tax cut being proposed was a drastic cut favoring wealthy taxpayers...where have we heard that before? Kansas Senator Cindy Holscher and State Representatives Brad Boyd, Linda Featherston, Dan Osman, Heather Meyer, and Mari-Lynn Poskin voted FOR our Blue Valley Schools, our state services, and our teachers’ retirement fund when they said “Not So Fast!”
As reported in the Sunflower State Journal, Governor Kelly said, “I refuse to take us back to an era of chronically underfunded schools, four-day school weeks, crumbling roads and bridges and crippling debt.” The SSJ reported: “The bill, which would have cost state government $1.3 billion in revenue over three years, would have set a new flat tax rate of 5.15% while ending the state sales tax on food this January instead of allowing it to phase out by 2025...Kelly called the tax plan a throwback to the era of former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, whose tax cuts were blamed for blowing holes in the state budget.” (Cooper, April 24, 2023)
Send us a photo of the mailers you get from AFP before you throw them into the recycling. We like to post about them to spread the word to Blue Valley voters about who AFP is (no one knows), who funds them - including paying for the design, printing, and postage for the mailers (no one knows) and what AFP’s agenda really is. We DO know their agenda: defund our public schools so billionaires don’t have to pay taxes to support them. Encourage private, for-profit schools so billionaires can make even more money.
Read the whole story from the SSJ (well worth a subscription for state government news) at this link:
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