Kan. Senate: Roll back food relief so state can afford flat tax

[KS Toronado]

TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson’s “broader picture” for tax policy changes came into focus Monday with
a plan that involves rolling back tax relief on food so the state can afford to cut income taxes for the highest wage
earners.

The Senate tax committee passed a flat tax plan that would lower the income tax rate for all wage brackets to
4.75% at an estimated cost of about $566 million in the next calendar year. The impact on state revenue would be
lessened by applying the sales tax on food to just “healthy” items.

“Is this meant to only help those less fortunate? I think the answer is no,” Masterson said. “They’re to be helped,
but it’s to help all Kansans, not just those less fortunate, because the structure’s there. The best thing for them is
a job. We can’t keep on the train of buying economic development. You have to put a tax structure in place where
those jobs remain. And so that helps everybody.”

Masterson’s proposal would repeal the gradual elimination of state sales tax on food, which would reduce annual
revenues by about $450 million when fully implemented on Jan. 1, 2025. Instead, Senate Bill 248 would exempt
select food items from both state and local sales tax, reducing state revenues by about $284 million in the next
fiscal year.

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https://hayspost.com/posts/65f31844-6f53-4d7b-9a41-bf70c05dedfa

Governor Kelly got a big win with her gradual elimination of the State food tax, time we start asking all our
reQublican friends/neighbors/coworkers "Why does the Kansas Senate want to raise the taxes on food again
right after it was lowered?"

What is “healthy” vs “unhealthy”....beer? ice cream? donuts? female products? flowers?

Wish we could turn this State blue, hard to do with the Koch's money floating around.

[Casady1]

1. Georgia used to tax food

I would argue with people down here that you paid more in tax than NY. Your single biggest expenditure in a calendar year is food. Taxing food is criminal.

[KS Toronado]

2. Hurts the working poor the most.

[onecaliberal]

3. They keep voting for this shit though.

[MuseRider]

4. I read that they were going to do it

in the Kansas Reflector paper yesterday. So they did it. Right back to Brownback days. Do they remember how he wrecked the state?

This is just more wrecking of the state, trying to make us all knuckle under. I half think that a lot of this is because of the Abortion vote. They came back mad as hell and ready to pay us back. This is just them getting started. I am waiting for the abortion rules to drop. The plans for women, especially Trans women, are just pats on our pretty little heads as they send us into housewife status again or keep us (trans women) from being anything but out of site out of mind.

[Deep State Witch]

5. The Cruelty Is The Point

Who cares if people starve, as long as Republicans have lower taxes?