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Now that he has killed the Keystone XL pipeline there can be no doubt: President Obama is out to destroy America intentionally.
Now that Obama has put the brakes on the Keystone XL pipeline, the state of Kansas should repeal the 100 percent property-tax exemption that our Republican legislators so graciously approved for the earlier Keystone project. Millions of dollars of taxes were forfeited for 10 years for this project. Guess who will pick up the lost revenue.
I want to believe our lawmakers are in Topeka devoting their efforts to the betterment of our state. Then I read some want to legalize booze sampling in liquor stores. They’re worried about someone buying something that won’t agree with his taste buds once he gets home?
Couldn’t we implement Gov. Sam Brownback’s new tax plan more efficiently if those of us who are low- to middle-income simply took one paycheck per month and hand-delivered it to a family in Eastborough, Vickridge or Wilson Estates?
Notice how some want that emergency temporary (ha!) sales-tax increase to become permanent? I think the state just might climb out of this financial mess astride the backs of the working poor.
I’m really OK if the poor’s taxes are used to subsidize my airfare. After all, my taxes pay for the poor’s welfare, Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment and disability benefits, and for their children’s education.
Koch Industries is adding 300 jobs without incentives? Is this legal?
For many years, the USA picked up her flag and yelled “Charge!” Nowadays we hide our flag and ask to borrow.
Carnival Cruises sure could have used a Captain Sully.
Regarding Wink Hartman’s “Party labels matter” (Jan. 18 Letters to the Editor): Perhaps Sedgwick County commissioners were trying to choose the best person for the job when they chose a Democrat to lead the commission in 2012. They ignored party affiliation in making their choice – which is exactly what they should have done.
I find it interesting that Christians choose to believe that people 2,000 years ago who were illiterate, uneducated and superstitious, and who thought the Earth was flat and the center of the universe, knew how we and the Earth were created.
Why don’t they put a casino in northwest Kansas?
