Issue Position: Budget

Issue Position

The Kansas budget as passed by the Governor and extremist legislators in Topeka is structurally imbalanced. We have no steady stream of revenue to pay our bills. The Brownback administration and the legislative branches have created the largest debt in the history of our state by allowing over 300,000 Kansans to pay NO state income taxes. We have reduced others' income tax and increased sales tax (the largest tax increase in State history), and yet we STILL cannot pay the state's bills.

We need a source of revenue that keep us from "borrowing" from other sources, such as money already earmarked for schools, public universities, roads, state departments, and the Early Children's Education fund. If you elect me to represent you in Topeka, I will roll up my sleeves and get to work so that we can fund our K-12 schools, stop sweeping from the transportation fund, pay KPERS, and have adequate reserve funds for emergencies, all by FIXING THE BUDGET FIRST!

If elected, I will work to see that all Kansans pay for the government services they use, and that those services are of the caliber that we have all come to expect. It starts with a revenue stream to fix our budget with more than one-time money.

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