Support for tax cut has limits

budgetcut3A new SurveyUSA poll, sponsored by KWCH, Channel 12, comes down on Sedgwick County Manager William Buchanan’s side on how deeply to cut the property-tax mill levy in the next budget. He proposes a 0.5-mill cut; at least two county commissioners want a 1.5-mill rollback. But 69 percent of the 500 county residents polled last week said it would not be worth cutting taxes an average $18 a year if it meant cutting jobs and programs, which Buchanan says it would. But even a 0.5-mill cut would have consequences; Buchanan’s proposal to close the Kansas Coliseum and its pavilions is drawing public fire.

3 Comments

  1. American_Way
    Posted July 19, 2009 at 10:10 am | Permalink

    Take the biggest tax cut, whenever you can get it.

    The politicians will have to work harder to fund all the programs, and that sometimes leads to efficiencies that were not possible without ANY cut. They will use scare tactics on loss of services to keep you in their corner.

    Remember: $18 bucks is about the cut that King Smurf Obama is bragging about.

  2. JWink
    Posted July 19, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

    Next thing Bill Buchanan, Sedgwick County manager, a big cheerleader for building the 1/2 billion dollar white elephant downtown Intrust arena, will threaten to cut food and heat to the Orphans’ Home because of a shortage of several hundred dollars of tax funds.

  3. bth
    Posted July 19, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    Even Bill Koch’s boy Karl Peterjohn seems to be questioning the wisdom of such a deep cut at this time. Interesting …