Opinion Line (July 14)

How many of the 330,000 small-business owners who no longer pay state income tax honestly believe Kansas is better off without that revenue?

Cutting state income tax benefits the rich. Cutting the state sales tax benefits the middle class. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the rich finance campaigns.

How will the Wichita City Council waste the $20 million from the sale of the Hyatt hotel?

I love the Fidelity Bank commercials. I want to be in one. They gave me a push to volunteer for three different organizations last week. What a grand area we live in.

The blame belongs on the people who do not comply with police – who intimidate, threaten and make police feel unsafe when all they’re trying to do is their job. Get a job, protesters.

Disrupting the lives of ordinary citizens by wasting their time in backed-up traffic, and wasting taxpayer money by tying up law enforcement personnel, is not a peaceful protest. What are they trying to sell us – that we’re lucky they didn’t cause bodily injury?

Black lives matter. Cops’ lives matter. Unborn lives matter. Your life matters. My life matters. Live this fact.

It is so sad to see how the Democrats use black Americans to get elected and then abandon them. Obama has had nearly eight years to grow jobs and improve schools in black communities but has done neither, even fighting charter school options.

Obama hasn’t divided the country. That has been done by the ones who are angry about having a black president.

The best thing about the PokemonGo craze is that it gets out into the sunshine a lot of people who have been living in their parents’ basements.

How long before some mindless idiot staring at his phone wanders in front of a car or down a flight of stairs while playing PokemonGo? Just what family time needs – more hours spent oblivious to one another with your noses in your phones.

This story was originally published July 14, 2016 at 12:03 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (July 14)."