Yesterday Koch-backed economist Art Hall was laying the policy groundwork for Gov. Brownback’s tax cut for the Wealthy.
His basic message? That what’s killing Kansas is the income tax, not the sales tax that he warned us about in 2010.
Hall, whose position is funded by Koch Industries, didn’t get into the specifics of the Governors’s tax cuts for the wealthy, so he didn’t reveal to this committee that Kansans who make less than $25,000 a year will see their taxes increase by 5000% under the plan.
He also didn’t tell the committee that those making $250,000 or more will see a 18% tax cut.
But what the Koch-fueled Hall did try to hammer home was that bending over backwards to design a tax code that favors businesses is the what Kansans need most.
So as Brownback’s plan to abandon the middle class and working families is begins to work its way through the Legislature we can expect more smoke and mirrors from Hall and the Kochs.
And to the half-million Kansans who make less than $25,000, Governor Brownback is waging war on you. It turns out that his tax cut isn’t for you after all. Instead you get a tax hike of 5000% to work into your family budget!
Brownback and his backers are turning their backs on Kansas values and waging war on the hard working families across the state.
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