In the Kansas legislature, I’ve been a strong advocate of allowing the people of our state to keep more of their hard-earned money. During my first term, I worked across the aisle with house Democrats and cosponsored a bill to immediately repeal the sales tax on food. I then voted for a Republican bill to phase out the state sales tax on food over time, which ended up passing and was signed into law.

This year, I voted in favor of a comprehensive tax cut bill. Our state currently has a large surplus of money, and we were able to give some of that surplus back to the people of our state in the form of tax relief.

The bill that we passed reduced our three-bracket income tax rate system to a two-rate system, significantly increased the personal exemption, repealed all taxes on Social Security, and reduced property taxes on residential homes.

Ultimately, our tax relief package didn’t go as far as many people would’ve liked, because Governor Kelly vetoed several bills which contained more tax relief. However, next year we’ll focus specifically on providing more property tax relief for the people of our state.