Kansas senator says reducing the sales tax on food is a form of social engineering

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24. this is Kansas

the state just got done making the income tax much less progressive, and even before that it was relatively flat, with basically only two brackets. First a standard deduction of a mere $3,850 then exemptions of $2,250 per person. Tax rate 3.5% up to $15,000, then 6.25% up to $30,000 then 6.45% over that.

But that was before Brownback and company reduced it to, if I recall 3% for the first bracket and 4.9% for the second bracket.

My view is that switching from what we have to no tax on food, would be a larger benefit to those with higher incomes, who would save the most from such a switch. The state would also lose some revenue from out of staters who spend money on food here.

Of course, such a move would not be as regressive as the last income tax cut they passed, or than many of the other tax cuts they pass every year, usually for corporations.