Saturday High Noon

Program Summary: March 12, 2016

SPECIAL FEATURED GUEST: "Mark from NE Kansas" discusses what it's like to be part of the private sector industrial working class in Kansas.  He researched how drastic the changes have been since Gov. Brownback has been elected to office, and the profound consequences it holds for workers on the edge of full time permanent jobs.

What's the matter with Kansas? "The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy recently reported that Kansas has the ninth-most unfair tax system in the county.  A Kansan earning $47,700 a year pays 9.5 percent of income in state and local taxes; but someone earning $1,191,700 pays an effective rate of just 3.6 percent."

So much for the 'trickle down' libertarian economic theories masterminded by the Wichita plutocrats Charles & David Koch; and implemented by Gov. Sam Brownback and his cronies in the state legislature.