Opinion Line (Oct. 12)

The proposed 1 percent sales tax increase will cost a family of modest means $161 per year. For them, that’s a week’s groceries. For the well-off, it’s not even a nice dinner out. Vote “no” for the sales tax increase.

The Wichita City Council wants our sales tax to be as high as it is in much of California. That’s plain crazy.

The people behind the Vote No commercial want us to slow down. Well, we can’t go over 25 mph because they’ve cut taxes for so long that the potholes in our streets will take out our front end. Vote “yes” for progress.

God created marriage. Man created gay marriage or union. If gays long for the benefits of marriage – fine. Seek to amend the laws to acknowledge gay union, but please do not call it marriage.

How can Kansas have a legislator (Rep. Steve Brunk) who actually says “the courts probably shouldn’t be involved in” the constitutionality of same-sex marriage at all? It is the constitutional responsibility of the courts to rule on the constitutionality of state actions.

Now that two men or two women can be married, why not legalize the marriage of a man and his son or a woman and her daughter? Let’s go a little further: man or woman and their pet? Where do the possibilities end?

The only reason the constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage passed in Kansas in 2005 was apathy and disgust with the whole political process by moderate and liberal voters. Come on, folks – you stayed home four years ago, too, and look what we got.

I saw the new Pat Roberts action figure at a retail store. When you pull the string it says, “Stop Harry Reid and Barack Obama.” It comes with a “Virginia Is for Lovers” bumper sticker, too.

A vote for Roberts will help end stagnation in Congress by ousting Harry Reid – who has blocked hundreds of House bills – as Senate majority leader. If Greg “Trojan Horse” Orman truly cared about the polarization of Congress, he would vote for Roberts, too.

Whom are we going to send to Washington? A man who has created jobs and knows what business needs to grow? Or a man who has talked about jobs, created none and does what Mitch McConnell and lobbyists tell him to do?

Political insanity is voting for someone when you know nothing about what they stand for.

I have had enough of the Democrats’ war on the middle class. I am voting for Sen. Pat Roberts and Gov. Sam Brownback.

I’ve heard about Paul Davis’ past behavior. I’ve experienced Sam Brownback’s past behavior.

If you like your strip club, you can keep your strip club.

I never thought we’d see another Kansas governor worse than Joan Finney, but Sam Brownback has certainly disabused me of that notion.

This story was originally published October 11, 2014 at 7:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Oct. 12)."