Business To Pay No Taxes In Kansas

[TheMastersNemesis]

Now that Governor Brownback has signed legislation that essentially eliminates business taxes in Kansas it is a model for the rest of the nation. If you listen really hard to the GOP and Chamber of Commerce rhetoric you will hear the message "Only workers and wage earners should pay taxes". The new Kansas legislation should be a warning that "no taxes on businesses and the rich" will be the norm.

They believe what Leona Helmsley said years ago that "only little people should pay taxes" and they are all about accomplishing that goal. The reason is that the GOP believes that the businesses and the rich are the ones who provide people their livelihood. They do not use the commons in their view.
These memes are not being said directly, but are buried in so many code worded ways with good sounding language that seems innocuous enough.

How much more absurd are we going to get on important issues? When will enough of the electorate wake up and realize that the GOP and its business allies are screwing them?

[RKP5637]

1. I'm convinced many Kansas voters are absolutely in la la land when they

go to the polls. How the majority can continue to vote in the ones that want to screw them to the wall is beyond me.

I've given up on Kansas, time to get the hell out. Sometimes in life the best policy is to just walk away from things and let them crash, otherwise, they take you with them. Kansas is projected to be in the red by several billion with this idiotic maneuver. Like Kansas never was the number one destination for many people IMO to move to for work.

I'm convinced in my lifetime I'll see the entire US crash financially for the majority. And I never was a pessimist, but anymore, just how much handwriting on the wall is needed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. They just show up on election day and vote for the republican

because that's what their parents did and their grandparents and it's always worked in the past.

They don't pay any attention to what has happened to the republican party and don't realize until it's too late that the people they are voting for are lunatics whose policies will destroy the state.

I'm old enough to remember when voting for republicans in Kansas wasn't always a bad decision. We had some minor disagreements with them but for the most part, they wanted the same things we did - good schools, safe communities and dependable government.

But those days are long gone.

[RKP5637]

13. So true, some of the old time republicans were great in that I always thought they

provided some counterbalance by providing insight to help keep the country on an even keel, kind of balancing out the fringes so we did not go way off course in one direction or another. But today, the republicans have literally gone insane. It's quite frightening. Now, they want to literally rip the country apart.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. My parents were lifelong Democrats.

And they voted for Bob Dole every time he was on the ballot. My dad was a WWII veteran who admired and respected Dole. He was proud he was our senator. My mom loved Nancy Kassebaum and even hosted neighborhood fundraisers for her. She invited other Democrats. That's what we did. We supported the candidates who shared our values.

Today Republicans like Dole and Kassebaum are called RINOs by the whackjobs on the far right. And they work as hard as they can to get them out of office.

It's sad. I'm so glad my parents aren't around to see this.

[RKP5637]

21. My dad (decades and decades ago) was a rather well known local

democratic politician in another state. He was a very strong FDR democrat. And some of his best friends were republicans. They used to partner on ideas that worked out best for people. There was always a lot of common ground, the republicans and democrats wanted the country to prosper and the republicans back then knew that many in the country needed to prosper. My mother was very active too. They both believed in fairness.

I often think similar, my parents just would not believe what is going on today. It's frightening, and if it continues is going to sink the country IMO.

[Woody Woodpecker]

2. Lovely. I'm sure all the business are going to be moving to Kansas.. right?? Right?

All that wide open space just practically begging to be filled in.

[Scootaloo]

3. Sure. I'll be America's first mainland "Free Trade Zone"

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- Topeka in 2014

[RKP5637]

4. If they can find room between the slaughter houses and strip malls in

western KS from what I've heard. Never been in that part much, just repeating what I've heard about some areas as you go westward.

[lastlib]

5. you haven't missed much. When I drive across it,...

...I always try to time it so I cross thru there at night. Just top your tank off before 9pm.....

[pipoman]

25. The awe of the beauty of the Earth

has been replaced by many with awe of human ingenuity.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Here in the KC area, there is a war going on to lure businesses from MO

Companies are being promised all kinds of incentives (mostly tax forgiveness) to come to Kansas. KCMO has an earnings tax so they really do save money when they move here from there. But it's causing lots of problems in the community and is bordering on silly now.

[pstokely]

23. People who work in KS but live MO pay a KS earnings tax

at least they used to

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. There's no such tax for residents.

Regardless, this business border war is really silly.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Some additional commentary/analysis on the new law can be found here...

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/may/27/kansas-tax-act-most-regressive-nation/

[RKP5637]

16. Can you post this at the top level as an OP so it gets more

visibility. I'll do it if you want me to. Thanks

[PoliticAverse]

19. Feel free to do so. n/t

[RKP5637]

20. Thanks! Will do. n/t

[pennylane100]

7. Is there a legal way to incorporate yourself as a business.

If so, everyone in Kansas should do that and then see who pays Brownback's salary

[RKP5637]

14. Yep, first step if KS wants no state tax and corp. tax is to dump

Brownback and the legislature. They are useless overhead. And why should Brownback have a governor's mansion. He can live in an ordinary house like the rest.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. What's the matter with Kansas?

Same as it ever was, just more of it.
K&R

[bongbong]

12. Interesting

I wonder if you can get rebates - on no taxes paid (i.e, a subsidy) - in Kansas now if you threaten to move your firm away if you don't get more tax breaks.

Rinse & repeat.

The race downward is something repigs are experts in. The only thing they're good at (besides hating America & the Middle Class)

[RKP5637]

15. The repigs are really domestic terrorists. n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

17. I shall be watching Kansas to see their state coffers BRIM to the RIM with tax dollars now that

Utopia has finally arrived. The state will be a petri dish for the nation.

My sympathies for all our Kansan compatriots, because state spending will inevitably follow the formula and you all have to live with the aftermath. I think it is where we are moving as a country, so now we will have a history to be informed by.

I am curious to see how long voters will be wooed by this trend. So I watch.

[Odin2005]

22. Their brains have been rotted by pesticides.

That's the only explanation.

[PavePusher]

26. You do realize that "corporate taxes" are paid by the consumer, right?

This is basic economics.

Tax the profits of the owners/shareholders. Still paid by the consumers. Still basic economics. But at least it's a little more transparent.