Kansas borrows $250 million from itself

to business for the last I don't know how many years, we would have more tax revenue to perhaps avoid this situation. I have a report from the Dept. of Revenue showing we lost around $1 BILLION on just deals made with industrial revenue bonds and their accompanying pay-in-lieu tax agreements and TIFS for a 10 year period and I am sure that has grown since I got the report a couple of years ago. This doesn't include all of the straight tax incentives given day in and day out by cities and counties across the state. Our elected officials at all levels can be held accountable for the loss of mucho, mucho tax revenue in my book and the burden always comes back to the average citizen in my opinion. What elected officials are doing is equivalent to high treason to me and yet so few people seem to know where I am coming from on this.

From KansasLiberty.com: 15 December 2008

Kansas 'forked over' $550,000 to abortion provider in last two years
Kansas Senator says Planned Parenthood should be defunded

State Sen. Tim Huelskamp called on Kansas lawmakers Tuesday to defund Planned Parenthood.

The Fowler Republican cited the organization's status as a criminal defendant as the basis for his demand.

Huelskamp, who has announced his intention to run for Jerry Moran's seat in the U.S. House in two years, said it was offensive that, over the past two years alone, Kansas taxpayers have “forked over” more than $550,000 to the abortion provider.

“There is simply no reason in the world why the taxpayer dollars of hundreds of thousands of pro-life Kansans should be used to underwrite abortion providers in this state, particularly those under criminal indictment and investigation,” Huelskamp said in a statement distributed Monday.

Huelskamp said the move also would signal that Kansas is willing to look everywhere in its quest to balance its budget.

“With a deficit exceeding $1 billion, every budget line item must be reviewed," Huelskamp said. "And Kansans should not be asked to subsidize the actions of an organization that operates under a cloud of suspicion and scandal.”

Planned Parenthood faces 107 criminal counts in Johnson County district court. The criminal charges include performing illegal late-term abortions and falsifying abortion reports at a clinic it operates in Overland Park.

Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, cheered Huelskamp’s action.

“It’s a great idea,” she said. “There are a lot of people who wonder why the largest abortion provider of America receives federal funds, much less state funds,” she said.

- Phil LaCerte

Planned Parenthood? Are these funds used to help women who cannot afford birth control and/or legal abortions? If so, I have no problems with my tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood to help these women. It is certainly much better to me to provide birth control to woman who cannot afford it than to have an unwanted pregnancy which may result in an abortion. And again, if a women cannot afford a LEGAL abortion, I will be happy to help with tax dollars - I certainly won't be making her choice for her but I will not take away her right for a medical procedure that is LEGAl just because she doesn't have the dollars. I, myself, may never be able to have an abortion but I will not take away a person's legal right to do so - that is their choice. I would help a person starving if there was any way I could and I would help women on this if I was able to. If the day comes when that abortion becomes illegal, then I, of course, would follow the law whether I agree with it or not.

Now I fully expect the comments to come about how I am a baby killer.

Heaven forbid we actually let people keep the money they earned. Heaven forbid the government stop spending like it has a blank check.

Heaven forbid women stop sleeping around and get pregnant from stupid choices. Heaven forbid men grow up and stop hooking up with anything with breasts.

Heaven forbid government stop funding Planned Baby Killers. Heaven forbid we stop spoon-feeding an entitlement subculture.

April of every year, maybe longer now, for your taxes but if the corporations (61% of the corporations did not pay any income taxes the last I heard and they certainly don't like to pay property taxes either) paid their full taxes, you might be able to get that kicked back to Feb. or March.

They pass them on to US!

H & R Block, the corporation that gladly prepares all those tax returns, got a massive TIF deal to move their headquarters from The Plaza to downtown.

IRB/EDX Properties report I received a few months ago from the Jo. Co. Appriasers Office. Here are some of the entities where cities floated industrial revenue bonds for them and they also have a pay-in-lieu agreement to only pay a portion of their property taxes.

Let's see we have Airsys ATM Inc., Aldi, Bayer Corp., Community America CU, Diamant Boart, First National Bank of Olathe, Garmin, Hampton Inn, Integrated Controls (JANS), Karbank, Logics Control, Labone, Olathe T-Shirt, Phenix Label, Qintiles, Riffe Construction, Sprint (The Daddy of Them All) Sysco, Transam, Zarbar and many, many others - these are just a few - some of these companies I have never heard of.

However, this report tells you that you are not getting taxes on $643,490,181 of exempt appraised valued property and this doesn't include the personal property also exempt. You can also add another about $166,000,000 which the city of Gardner approved this past Monday evening for Midwest Commerce (Paul Licausi). The school districts will be losing millions of dollars due to these deals and your schools across Kansas, the library system, the Jo. Co. Community College, the County, each city involved, the Parks and Rec Department.

Remember this is the tip of the iceberg, you probably have hundreds of additional straight tax incentives that I don't have figures on.

So think about it

The $166,000,000 I showed for Midwest Commerce (Paul Licausi) is about the total APPRAISED AMOUNT - they will only pay taxes on half of that amount or an exempt amount of about $83,000,000.