A different perspective

(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Oct. 28, 2013)

Martin HawverBoy! You go to one of those intellectual conferences outside the Statehouse—this one on the KU campus and they’re talking about the impact on local communities of the state’s tax policies—and your head spins for a couple days.

The Kansas Economic Policy Conference was one of those, and while in the Statehouse we talk about what Gov. Sam Brownback calls a “shot of adrenalin to the heart” that his income tax cuts have produced, down at the county and city level, things look a lot different.