Opinion Line (April 8)

If you are ignorant enough to think small businesses are spared tax payments, I would invite you to pay my quarterly tax payment.

Small businesses are paying some taxes (property and sales, for example) just like most everyone else. Many are not, however, paying state income taxes. Therein lies the woes of the inadequate state budget.

One thing you can say for Gov. Sam Brownback: He’s a uniter. Totally unaffiliated groups have joined forces to defeat him and his lackeys in the Legislature. Never have I seen people so upset and united in one goal.

It’s time we recognize the Wichita school board’s fearmongering for what it is. It’s the board’s attempt to garner public support for increased funding by scaring parents into demanding it from the Legislature with threats of low performance.

USD 259 should follow Boeing’s lead by flattening its management structure, renegotiating supplier contracts, consolidating programs, slashing business travel, reducing excess inventory, and working to boost productivity and quality.

New bus routes – it’s like the city is brand-new.

I think Cargill’s reference to wanting an environment conducive to younger workers really means the political environment, not the building. It can build whatever office it wants, but it can’t attract young workers to a state toxic to alternative lifestyles and to education. Look at what is happening in North Carolina.

Dirty-minded Kansas legislators seem to think that a man will pretend to be a girl so he can use the girls’ bathroom to leer at naked women. However, there is nothing to leer at in a girls’ bathroom since all business is done behind closed doors.

I think everybody should be allowed to pee in whatever bathroom they want. This is America.

We all believe that humans are dead when their heart stops beating and they have no brain activity. That same logic makes it difficult to understand why a 7-month-old fetus is not considered a human being.

Picture this in your mind. Go to the Oval Office. Do you really see Bernie Sanders behind that big desk? Very scary thought. I need to wake up from this nightmare.

Ted Cruz claims Wisconsin was a “turning point” for him. How many more is he going to get? His “turning points” are beginning to equal Obama’s “phony scandals.”

This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (April 8)."