Good for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for vetoing a petty budget provision that would have required state advertising to include a line saying the ads were financed with Kansas tax dollars. Besides being a prime example of legislative meddling (even "help wanted" ads would have needed the disclaimer), the provision would have meant the state was lying on the frequent occasions when an ad was actually paid for by federal funds, private grants or lottery ticket sales.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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That proposal was just another freshman/woman House member who wanted her name in the paper. Never mind trying to think the idea through, but “stab the beast”.
What is wrong with a provision like this?
Don’t you want to know what your tax dollars are being spent on?
I have seen other “governmental bodies” do this too. They do it so the people who read the advertisements know it was funded with their tax dollars.
Is there something to be scared of in knowing what our tax dollars are being spent on?
Most of the time something like this is just a small little disclaimer at the bottom of the ad.
So politicians have to disclose every precious penny as to how they got it and how they’re spending it, but that’s too much for the State? Nice consistency Eagle.
Political ads carry a “disclaimer”. Personally,I see nothing wrong with having to identify anything that uses public funding (our tax money) as being financed by tax dollars. If it’s paid for by federal dollars, that’s still tax money. But that should include these staged “news casts” (Williams, et al) the current administration puts out.
Are there any real reasons the state should not have to identify when an ad is paid for with tax dollars?
They don’t want the public to see what they are paying with tax dollars for.
People might be concern seeing every other bill board saying “Paid with Taxdollars”
95% of what politicians do is done for political reasons, not because it’s what should be done.
So you have to ask yourself two questions:
1) Who wanted the disclaimer and why.2) Why would the Governor veto it?
This post made over government controlled phone lines so “This post was paid for with tax dollars.”
Wake up people! Once you pay taxes to the state, the money is not tax dollars, but state funds.