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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 08:17 PM Oct 2014

Gov. Brownback’s folly: How Dan Doyle’s business and 191,000 others don’t pay Kansas income taxes

BY BARBARA SHELLY

Dan Doyle is so amazed by his new status as a tax-exempt Kansan that sometimes he’ll bring it up to complete strangers.

Like at a store or the bank. He says the conversations go something like this:

“Do you pay income tax to the state of Kansas?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t.”

“Oh yes you do.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Why not?”

“Sam Brownback says I don’t have to.”

Doyle is a partner in an Overland Park law firm, one of about 191,000 “pass-through” businesses that are the luckiest recipients of the radical tax overhaul that Brownback and his GOP-dominated Legislature engineered three years ago.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/barbara-shelly/article3326556.html

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Gov. Brownback’s folly: How Dan Doyle’s business and 191,000 others don’t pay Kansas income taxes (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2014 OP
Somebody please.... Segami Oct 2014 #1
The stupid mouth breathers would assume that it applied to them, too. n2doc Oct 2014 #2
 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
1. Somebody please....
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 08:46 PM
Oct 2014

...turn this exchange into a building size billboard with high exposure concentration. Just simple white text on black background with red emphasis on:

"..I DON'T....NO, I DON'T.....and....SAM BROWNBACK SAYS I DON'T HAVE TO.."






n2doc

(47,953 posts)
2. The stupid mouth breathers would assume that it applied to them, too.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 08:53 PM
Oct 2014

Then when the state came down on them, would claim "liburls are attacking meee!"

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