Gov. Mark Parkinson proposed a $380 million tax increase Monday night during his State the State address to the KS Legislature. This includes a 1 cent increase in the state sales tax and an additional $69M in tobacco taxes. If these tax increases are implemented, the sales tax would go from 5.3% to...
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Great Article and a possibility that everyone should be concerned about. If we continue down the road that we are on, I agree that there exist a real possibility of the disappearance of the middle class in this country.
The possibility makes me think of some of the other economies that see around the...
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Later this week, President Obama will be hosting a jobs summit that promises to bring together all the top CEOs from industry. Confirmed attendees include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, FedEx CEO Frederick Smith, Walt Disney’s CEO Bob Iger and Boeing CEO James McNerney. Each of these four attendees is leading a company that announced...
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Maybe he is finally beginning to get it. President Obama on Thursday announced plans for a jobs summit in December. The announcement came as the Labor Department reported another 502,000 new jobless claims, two high-tech mainstays announced big layoffs and the unemployment rate reached 10.2 percent.
As major employers such as Sprint, AOL and Time,...
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The focus is in the wrong place. It should be on moving forward legislation that will promote and increase jobs, not on supporting those that can’t find work. Economic programs and “real” job stimulus bills need to be implemented that will encourage investment and job growth in US companies. The majority...
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