We did away with a lot of deductions and credits for poor families over the past two years. And then we came back in 2015, and we didn’t have the money to pay the bills in the state. So then we raised the sales tax, we raised the cigarette tax, we did away with itemized deductions. We look at the cumulative impact of those three tax changes… chunks of tax changes. And the poorest 40 percent of Kansans saw an average net tax increase. The poorest 40 percent. They saw their taxes go up as a result of this. Whereas the wealthiest 5, 10, 15 percent saw just overwhelming reductions as a result.…
