Subject: Tax Policy

• Higher Taxes for Health Care? You Know You Agree

  September 23, 2008

• Best Conspiracy Theory

  October 9, 2003

• With all of his talk about the “middle class,” Congressman Sam Graves sounds like the idiot on Main Street

  January 22, 2009

• It’s time to call bullshit on conservatives’ tired argument about Democrats and tax increases

  August 28, 2008

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Subsidized

  Kansas City has an expensive habit of paying for every developer’s champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

  May 26, 2005

• Extreme Makeover: Taxman Edition

  May 11, 2006

• Blunt Trauma

  Crappy cuts to the poor make us wonder -- what would Claire do?

  May 12, 2005

• Dance Revolution

  The latest battle of Westport: taxation without representation.

  January 22, 2004

• Dude Where's the Party

  Local Democrats cross political lines to support their favorite pork producer — Senator Kit Bond.

  January 8, 2004

• Busted

  Rich developers helped bankrupt the city's bus system, and now you're being asked to bail it out.

  October 23, 2003

• Shop 'Til You Drop

  President Bush gets needlessly bruised by the left-leaning Star.

  September 11, 2003

• The Fall of Paul

  Paul Danaher should have been a contender for mayor.

  November 28, 2002

• Mary Quite Contrary

  In the battle over school funding, moderate Johnson County Republicans say Mary Pilcher Cook is their worst teachers' pest.

  July 18, 2002

• Todd Tiahrt wants to unbalance Kansas' budget

  Kelly KultalaTodd TiahrtKansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt and his perfectly coiffed hair want to repeal the federal economic stimulus plan. Last week, Tiahrt started running TV commercials (did you know he's running for U.S. Senate?) saying so. We've mentioned that maybe Tiahrt would like to try to balance Kansas' budget without those funds, which got us thinking: How hard would it have been without the money? So we called Kansas state Sen. Kelly Kultala, who worked on the budget."There's no way th

  July 1, 2009