The KRA Blog Rotating Header Image

Posts Tagged ‘Taxation and Spending’

How much should the government spend?

The Kansas House and Senate have passed a $13 billion state budget set to begin July 1. The budget makes some minor cuts to K-12 education and major cuts to other areas, but in the end signifies only a 6.8% decrease in general fund expenditures in comparison to 2009 spending levels. While 6.8% sounds like [...]

Hundreds brave cold to say, “No Moore Pork!”

Kansas Meadowlark has two posts up today (here and here) that you’ll want to take a look at. While I wasn’t able to be at the rally in Overland Park today, I was with you in spirit! Meadowlark has a photo journal up about the rally. There’s also a great piece on KDOT’s new claim [...]

Rally against Moore’s support of Federal Porkulus Bill

Yesterday a note on Michelle Malkin’s website alerted us to a rally against Congressman Moore’s support of the Porkulus Bill. More and more people are getting involved, AFP has alerted their members, and Darla Jaye is talking with the organizer, Amanda, on the Darla Jaye show at 8:05 pm tonight. You can get involved, too! [...]

Santelli’s Chicago Tea Party

You may have heard it on Rush or Hannity or Shanin & Parks or any other number of talk radio shows today. Even if you did, it’s still worth 5 minutes of your time to watch it. CNBC’s Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CBOE express outrage over the notion they [...]

Video Wednesday: Bob Weeks on the Kansas minimum wage, Democrats defend Fannie, Freddy

Bob Weeks of Wichita Liberty discusses the effort to raise the Kansas Minimum Wage and why it’s a bad idea. What form of government is the best? Timeline shows Top Democrats defended Fannie, Freddy. Chuck Schumer: The American people don’t care about wasteful spending.