Some intensive shadowboxing may be about to break out in the so-far relatively bloodless fight between Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and Democrat Rep. Paul Davis, Lawrence, for governor.
The latest: Brownback asserts that Davis’ sketchy call for freezing the state’s multiyear income tax cut regimen—apparently to avoid budget deficits—is essentially raising taxes.
Earlier: It was Brownback who campaigned against letting the three-year penny sales tax increase expire on July 1, 2013, because he needed the money for education, and…to pay for an income tax cut bill that the Legislature wildly inflated above Brownback’s proposal.
So, who increased taxes and who proposes to increase…err…not continue cutting…taxes?