Kansas considers tax cuts for most residents -- except poorest

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kansas-poor-tax-20120223,0,2777899.story

Kansas is considering raising taxes on its poor and cutting them for everybody else.

State Republicans have been campaigning to overhaul the tax code in Kansas to spur growth. The idea is that, by eliminating income taxes for residents and small businesses, lowering the sales tax and ditching a host of tax credits, Kansans will have more money and thus stimulate the economy.

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A Kansas House tax committee passed a bill in which anyone making less than $25,000 a year — roughly half a million of the state’s 2.9 million residents — will pay an average of $72 more in taxes, while those making more than $250,000 — about 21,000 people — will see a $1,500 cut, according to Kansas Department of Revenue estimates cited by the Kansas City Star.

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“It’s been Robin Hood in reverse,” Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, told the Kansas City Star in mid-January. “What we are doing is stealing from the poor to give to the rich.”

Amended Kansas tax plan increases burden on poor
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/22/3446052/amended-kansas-tax-plan-increases.html

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1. Typical Brownback logic ... n/t

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2. What taxes would someone under $25k see increase...

That wouldn't increase for the 1% too?They can't be paying income taxes at that income level can they?