So update on Kansas. The state senate just passed SB22, which would decouple state and federal returns for purposes of itemizing deductions. In other words, it would allow people to claim the federal standard deduction while still itemizing on their state returns. Without this fix, people who now take the new, bigger standard deduction on their federal returns will see higher taxes in Kansas because they lose their itemized deductions there.
The vote was 26-14, which is one vote short of the 27 needed to override Kelly's promised veto. The 26 includes 2 Republicans, one of whom is a RINO and a lost cause, the other of whom may very well just be stupid and/or confused. She's saying things like how much will this "cost." If you find wallet on the street, you don't ask how much it will "cost" or whether you can "afford" to return it. It is found money. Money you wouldn't have otherwise had.
Now it heads over to the House, where the Pubs only have 84 and need exactly 84 to overide the veto. That seems pretty ulikely because I know there are still a handful of RINO's lurking in there.
So congrats Governor Kelly on getting a massive, hidden tax increase because the dumbfuck Pubs were too stupid to fix this issue when they still had Brownback/Colier.
