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- The Kansas City Star. Aug. 22, 2011.
Conservatives in think tanks and state legislatures have long fantasized about a day in which citizens and businesses would pay little or no state taxes on incomes or earnings.
Those dreamers now have an ally, Sam Brownback, in the governor's office in Kansas. In Missouri, they have a benefactor, Rex Sinquefield, who likes to sink millions of dollars into pet projects.
That kind of firepower should prompt a wake-up call in both states. While no one likes paying taxes on the fruits of their labor, jettisoning the income tax would result in higher prices on goods and services and would likely force even more drastic cuts to public education and other services.
Both scenarios would be ruinous for poor and-middle-income households.
"Of all the states considering this, both Kansas and Missouri are at the top of the list," a spokesman for the American Legislative Exchange Council approvingly told a reporter for The Star.
The blessing of the council, known as ALEC, raises a red flag. It is funded and dominated by free-market and corporate interests, who work with like-minded legislators to push various agendas.
In Missouri, a group backed by Sinquefield, a St. Louis multimillionaire, has filed 11 initiative petitions with the Missouri secretary of state. So far, nine have been approved for the November 2012 ballot if backers collect enough valid signatures from voters.
The Sinquefield-backed petitions differ in some details, but all demand that the state eliminate taxes on income and replace some of the lost revenue through a higher tax on goods and services. Some versions call for capping the state sales tax at 7 percent -- an awful idea that would reduce the state's ability to raise revenues for any purpose.
In an analysis of the first nine Sinquefield-backed petitions, James R. Moody, a government relations consultant in Missouri, concluded that "they will either bankrupt the state or, in the alternative, bankrupt the poor and the working lower and middle classes.
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THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN THIS COUNTRY COVERS NEARLY ALL OF TEXAS, OKLAHOMA AND NEW MEXICO. OTHER STATES LIKE KANSAS AND LOUISIANA HAVE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE AS WELL. IT'S NOT ONLY GRAIN CROPS THAT STRUGGLE, BUT COTTON FIELDS AND GRAZING LANDS.
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Kansas Horticulture Field Days Planned for Colby and Hays | Rural ...
HAYS, Kan. – Kansas State University will host Kansas Horticulture Field Days in Colby on Wednesday, Aug. 31, and Hays on Thursday, Sept. 1.
The programs, which are free and open to the public, will focus on western Kansas lawn and garden issues, including the most recent trends in flowers, vegetables, fruits and turfgrasses.
The Aug. 31 field day is at the K-State Northwest Research-Extension Center at 105 Experiment Farm Road in Colby, beginning with registration at 5:30 p.m. The program begins at 6 p.m.
The Sept. 1 event is at the K-State Agriculture Research Center at 1232 240th Ave. in Hays.
Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. at the tent adjacent to the flower trials on the north side of the greenhouse complex. The program starts at 5:50 p.m.
Presentations by K-State Research and Extension speakers will include:
• 2011 Prairie Star Flower Trials – Alan Stevens, florticulture specialist.
• Lawn and Turfgrass Issues – Rodney St. John, turfgrass specialist.
• Recommended Plant Material for Northwest Kansas – Cheryl Boyer, nursery crops specialist.
• Vegetables and Fruit Crops for Kansas – Cary Rivard, vegetable and fruit specialist.
• Landscape Issues: Year in Review – Holly Dickman, horticulture extension agent (Colby).
At the Hays field day, the Ellis County extension Master Gardeners will provide a display of various tomato and pepper varieties currently in trials.
More information about the horticulture events is available by calling Rodney Zimmerman (Colby) at 785-462-6281 and Joe Becker (Hays) at 785-625-3425, ext. 222.
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