Comments on recent op-eds
In a Tuesday op-ed, Mr. Russ Latino states: “Only Kansas’ hill is a mirage — an obstacle of misperception, not of substance.”
The Kansas tax is putting the lie to the anti-tax argument.
Republican governors and state legislators have let ideology trump sound policy.
Kansas tax cuts sharply decreased tax revenue.
The tax cuts wiped out Kansas’s surplus. They probably will ours too.
The tax cuts weren’t improving Kansas’s economy either. Job growth was lagging.
Kansas even lagged behind its neighbors in job growth.
The comeback state of 2019, Kansas economy rebounded from the tax cutting disaster. Two years after repealing steep tax cuts, the Kansas budget was back in the black.
Go Kansas. Stick with what works.
In another op-ed, historian James Finck says pushing lies, disinformation, and conspiracy theories will destroy our democracy. Example: Jan.6, and maybe March 4.
The truth matters.
James Hodges
Steens
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