Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s reading of state open-records law squares with common sense: Because the nonprofit Schools for Fair Funding that has sued the state on behalf of school districts is fueled by tax dollars, the public should be able to know more information about the 8-year-old group’s expenditures. Kline added his voice Friday to those of some lawmakers and The Topeka Capital-Journal in calling for Schools for Fair Funding to be subject to the same transparency as its sponsoring school districts. Those districts now have the benefit of the increased funding the lawsuit brought; they should see the public benefit of complying with Kline’s demand that the group release expenditure documents since at least July 1, 2005.
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I don’t understand why the press has not investigated Schools for Fair Funding and how they filed their IRS 990 forms as a non-profit. IRS 990s MUST identify the top salaries and recipients of any funds, such as major contractors. (On an IRS 990, a non-profit can hide the source of their income, but must identify why their expeditures merit a non-profit status.) The IRS should challenge Schools for Fair Funding to fill out their IRS 990 properly and identify exactly which law firms are receiving exactly how much money. Perhaps Kline will find this out first.
See:
http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/02-13/index.htmOver $2 MILLION of Kansas Tax Dollars Used by Lobbyists and Attorneys to Sue the State of Kansas to Increase Tax Dollars?
http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/02-15.htmVoters in 14 schools districts paid $8.24 to $15.97 in taxes to sue Kansas for higher taxes. Why did Hays voters only pay $8.24/voter when Derby and Dodge City voters paid over $15 to sue?
Quit shilling your lonely blog here meadowduck.
Meadowlurk, shouldn’t you pay the Eagle for all that blatent advertising for your crappy blahhhg?
Honestly to the leftist Republican haters on this blog? What is wrong with Meadowlark? You can disagree with his views, but he does put out some solid information. More than what anybody or even the Eagle ever puts out.
He is a good citizen. I don’t agree with him 100%, but why do you do nothing but bash the guy.
He has every right to post his findings.
Meadowlark does do a public service by pointing out some of the problems that occur, that said.The problem is that he/she comes across as more “swift-boat-ish” (great in the topic I just left I commented how we love catch phrases and now I made one up) as in the question that was posed about where were the minorities on that school bus? Of course we all do it to some degree here, but instead of appearing to be simply pointing out the problem. Meadowlark comes across as wanting to throw the baby out with the bath water over some of the most minor points. The worse kind of poster is the one that does not really believe what they say and is simply tatting the party line. repeating what was said by someone else and not thinking for them self. Meadowlark comes across that way too.
To say it in another way, meadowlark like to frog hair a subject.
FROG HAIR?IS THAT SIMILAR TO CHICKEN LIPS?
Good point, Rhonda.
And while you’re at it, maybe when The Eagle prints boilerplate from “The Flint Hills Institute for Public Policy,” they could mention who funds it?
I suspect it’s anti-tax Koch Industries, but it’s hard to prove because they won’t tell you even when you ask, as I have.
A big “thank you” to Koch Industries for their anti-tax stance!
Meadowlark, do not be deterred by the personal attacks, insults, and vitriol coming from the left. They say they are for freedom of expression, that anything is open for discussion, except when someone says something they don’t like.
A big thank you to SD for voting for idiots who cut your taxes a dime and cut Koch’s taxes by 1 billion.
Thanks to people who idolize the rich like you, Cubans have a longer life expentancy than US citizens do . . .
Thank you for that insight into who I do or do not idolize. How are you so perceptive, Cap’n?
And how do you know how taxes I saved, anyway?
See, Meadowlark, the left is eager to tell me all about myself, what I should think, how much I saved on taxes, etc. We should all just do as they say. It would be so much easier, and, as a benefit, we’d have an extra year or so of life expectancy like Cuba! Just sign your paycheck over to CapnAmerica or his designee, and that’s what we could all have.
“Cuba guarantees education and healthcare free of charge; full access to sports and culture; it promotes healthy eating and keeps elderly people motivated through their association with senior citizen centers,” Selman noted. “We also have a high-quality health infrastructure that includes 430 multi-disciplinary teams for gerontology services and a pharmaceutical industry that produces 80% of the medications used in the country.”
That combination of factors will soon make it possible for life expectancy in Cuba, currently at 77 years, to reach 80 years, according to Doctor Alberto Fernández Seco, director of the National Program for Attention to Older Adults.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier19/longevity.html
Among the 30 developedcountries that comprise the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD),American life expectancy at age 65 for both males and females falls in the middle of the group . . .
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:L8_jgxjpO1YJ:www.bc.edu/crr/issues/ib_21.pdf+%22life+expectancy+compared%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
You’re right, SD. If you make enough money and have health insurance from work, you’ll probably live about as long as they do in Cuba.
If you’re poor, you can kick off at 65 like the rest of ‘em.
BTW, 80 – 65 = 15. 15 is 23 percent of 65. That means if you live in Cuba, you will live 23 percent longer than if you live here.
But thank God Halliburton and Koch are raking the profits, right, SD?
Cap’n, sre you stating that the life expectancy in America is 65? The article you referred me to speaks about life expectancy at age 65 years. It doesn’t state that America’s life expectancy at birth is 65 years.
I wonder why, though, so many people are so eager to leave Cuba? Or why is the Cuban government so eager to prolong their subjects’ miserable existence?
Obviously, I’m not saying life is better in Cuba than here. You’d have to be a conservative to willfully misrepresent what I’m saying like that.
What I’m saying is that even a pissant country like Cuba has a more effective public health system than we do BECAUSE of conservatives who care more about the health of big multinationals like KOCH than they do about their own family members.
Capnamerica – you might want to go back and read what you wrote. Your words are supportive of communism. You are showing support for a country that puts you in jail and your family in jail (assuming they have not already killed you) for disagreeing with them.
You are asking for everyone to be on the same level. That is not freedom.
You may want to check out a couple of books written by Ann Ryand (sp) called Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head. Then see if you really think having the government decide how much you can make and own is what you really want.
One of the things that make America great is the ability to work hard so that you make money. I don’t know why you are so anti-KOCH. If they left Wichita and Kansas you can be guaranteed of a tax increase. They would take all of the jobs they provide and the taxes they pay with them. Not to mention the fuel they buy, the electric they purchase, the natural gas they purchase etc. There are a lot of hard working families that work for KOCH and I do not understand why you would want them to lose their jobs.
It appears that you have not been able to make something of yourself so you are down on everyone that has. That is so sad. Because I have know a lot of people that have been down and out at one time or another and they did not let that get in their way of becoming successful. Some of them have been single moms and they have not only made a success of themselves but they have also been able to put their children through college. Why? Because they did not give up and just sit around and whine about it. They did not sit around and say gee I just can’t make it because some big business is in my way.
You are such a cry baby. Grow up, get a job, work hard and even you would be able to become successful. Stop worrying about what someone else has. Be proud of what you have and what you have achieved if you are willing to try and work hard.
The Kochs are radically anti-tax. Granddaddy Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society — the anti-communist organization that called John F. Kennedy “a communist.”
Last I knew the Kochs are among the 50 richest people in the world. They probably can afford to pay their fair share of taxes even thought they don’t seem to think they should have to.
This Flint Hills paper is a favorite of mine. It explains the increases in uninsured workers is the result of the decisions of well off workers. Yeah, right…
http://www.flinthills.org/index.php?option=com_search&Itemid=1&searchword=health%20insurance&searchphrase=any&ordering=newest&limit=30&limitstart=120
The Kochs and the “public policy institute” – read their propaganda arm — are wayyyy out there.
Wichita was home to the founders of the John Birch Society and the beginnings of the Church of Scientology. When you consider our town’s history as a spawning ground for far out thinking, you have to question if there is something wrong with our water supply. Maybe some fluoridation might help.