Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity

What good is lobbying if there is no money? Dolph, you don't want to pay taxes, but you want KU to lobby for money? You rich people want your cake and to eat it too.

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May 25, 2013 at 11:05 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location

Give him a chance, but if it doesn't change, close him down. At least he is willing to admit there's a problem, unlike the guy who owned the bar on New Hampshire.

May 25, 2013 at 10:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts

We don't care if he wants to be a "segregating-sexist-racist-homophobic bigot". That's his right, and we won't take it away from him, but he would like to take away the rights of people who aren't like him. He can marry whomever he wants. Within legal bounds, he can ignore anyone he wants, but he wants to legislate hate. So who is being intolerant? You can play the "tea party" victim card all you want, but it's pretty laughable.

May 25, 2013 at 10:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts

Hear, hear!!!! For Mikek, not the person who doesn't want people treading on him, but would be happy to tread on others.

May 25, 2013 at 10:13 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service

So all these "tea party" groups started popping up everywhere. How is the IRS suppose to find out if they are legit or just someone who wants to get out of paying taxes? Several years ago I knew people who turned their house into a "church", and even had Sunday "sermons", so they could qualify as a church.

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May 25, 2013 at 10:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says

You know if all the workers decided not to do the work anymore until the rich people decided to stop being greedy, they might suffer for a while, but then the uppity 1% would figure out that they didn't build it. Of course, they have workers convinced that someday they too will be filthy rich. They have convinced them that they should take whatever they can get, then get laid off, if the profit doesn't grow enough. Not if the profit is good, but the profit didn't grow enough. Then the companies down size or move to another country, just so the CEO's and investors can earn more money than anyone can spend in their lifetime.

May 24, 2013 at 11:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says

They aren't talking about the hit that middle class people will take when they can't deduct their mortgage interest, so it isn't just the poor who will be paying more. The poor and the rich receive the biggest benefit from from taxpayers, the poor to keep them from starving, the rich who get the most use out of our infrastructure.
Itdman, are you someone who owns their own business so you won't pay any more income tax? Yet, your business probably requires good roads, and other things my taxes pay for. Is your home paid for? Even if it's not, and you are a business owner who doesn't have to pay taxes anyway, the mortgage interest deduction doesn't affect you anyway. So, are you going to give your workers a raise? Are you going to hire more workers? Do your workers earn a living wage, and do you provide benefits? If the middle class no longer have that deduction and have to pay more taxes to Kansas, how are they going to buy more product and/or service from you? Why not think a little past your own temporary boost?

May 24, 2013 at 11:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts

If you don't want to be involved in a same sex relationship, then don't, but it's wrong to dictate to others. What does scouting have to do with sex anyway, except for the pedophiles that were accepted as scout leaders. By the way, most pedophile are not homosexual. They are usually married with children. Pedophilia is a category of mental illness about power over, the same as rape. Well it really is rape, isn't it?

May 24, 2013 at 5:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax

The states who relied on sales tax when the economy went south were the hardest hit. You want to put us in that situation?

May 24, 2013 at 5:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax

Think about it. You will be paying more taxes to Kansas if you are a homeowner, which will probably make more people decide owning a home isn't worth it. Then they will go rent from a business who will be able to deduct the property tax as business expense, and, oh wait, they don't have to pay any taxes anyway. They're a business. Who benefits?

May 24, 2013 at 9:13 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )