Search results for: “historic tax credits”
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Fact-Check: Major Claims from Trump’s Mount Pocono Rally
The pattern across these claims reveals consistent exaggeration of positive data, misattribution of causation to administration policies when other factors were primary drivers, and conflation of different statistics to create misleading impressions. While some underlying trends (border enforcement improvements, market recovery, price stabilization) represent genuine developments, the specific claims made systematically overstate magnitude and presidential…
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Fact-Check: Trump’s Fox News Radio Interview with Brian Kilmeade (March 13, 2026)
This interview contains accurate descriptions of two recent terror-related incidents alongside at least five demonstrably false or significantly misleading claims on immigration figures, border crossing statistics, mail-in voting, and Trump’s personal history. The most serious concern is Trump’s invocation of “genetics” to explain the violent behavior of Muslim immigrants — language scientists and ethicists associate…
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White House Press Briefing: Leavitt Defends Immigration Enforcement After Minneapolis Shooting, Demands Minnesota Cooperation
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on January 26, 2026 announced that President Trump spoke directly with Governor Tim Walz demanding Minnesota implement three specific measures to cooperate with ICE operations following a shooting that killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Leavitt blamed Democratic leaders for “deliberate and hostile resistance” that created dangerous conditions for…
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Kansas reasonable: We’re number 47 (and 48)
The “Kansas reasonable” approach to governing has lead to poor economic growth and high tax costs.
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Wichita economic development items
The Wichita city council has been busy with economic development items, and more are upcoming.
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Wichita’s Jeff Longwell on TIF districts, tax abatements
Is a tax increment financing (TIF) district a tax abatement? Wichita city council member Jeff Longwell, now Wichita’s vice-mayor, doesn’t think so. During this week’s city council meeting, Longwell said this in explaining his support of a TIF district created for the benefit of Real Development: “One of the things that people I think need…
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More TIF spending in Wichita
The Wichita City Council will consider approval of a redevelopment plan in a tax increment financing (TIF) district.
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Wichita school bond issue not the only proposed tax increase
As the residents of Wichita consider whether to vote for the $350 million school bond issue proposed by the board of USD 259 (Wichita public school district), be aware that the bond issue and its associated increase in property taxes is not the only tax increase the public schools in Kansas would like to have.…
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Fact-Checking the Kansas Governor Debate: Masterson and Holscher’s Claims at the State Fair
Ty Masterson and Cindy Holscher cited dozens of statistics at their first head-to-head debate at the Kansas State Fair. We checked more than 20 of those claims against government records and independent reporting to see which held up.
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Lessons from Kansas tax reform
What can the rest of the nation learn from our experience in Kansas? Come to think of it, why haven’t we learned much?
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Kansas Tax Revenue, March 2024
For March 2024, Kansas tax revenue was 0.3 percent higher than March 2023, and 0.9 percent higher than estimated.
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Sales tax exemptions in Kansas
Can eliminating sales tax exemptions in Kansas generate a pot of gold?