Media Release: ICYMI: Governor Kelly's 'Axing Your Taxes' Plan Will Benefit Rural Communities Battling Food Insecurity

For Immediate Release:         
February 23, 2023
          
Contact:         
Cassie Nichols
[email protected]

ICYMI: Governor Kelly's 'Axing Your Taxes'

Plan Will Benefit Rural Communities

Battling Food Insecurity

KEY QUOTE: When over 280,000 Kansans are facing hunger on a daily basis, including over 102,000 children, we cannot let politics continue to allow the food sales tax to burden our families. We urge the legislature to pass Governor Kelly’s “Axing Your Taxes” plan to cut costs for our families right away.

To address hunger in SW Kansas, we must pass Gov. Kelly’s “Axing Your Taxes” plan
Martha Terhaar, Dodge City Globe
February 21, 2023

I work to address hunger in Southwest Kansas, providing our families with the necessary resources to help put food on the table, support themselves, and raise healthy families. One of the best ways to do that is to pass Governor Laura Kelly’s “Axing Your Taxes” plan, which calls for the complete and immediate elimination of the food sales tax.

In Kansas, one in ten adults faces hunger, burdened with impossible choices like being able to afford food or paying the rent that month. Meanwhile, one in seven children faces hunger, leaving our kids unsure of where their next meal might come from and hurting their physical and mental development.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Eliminating the sales tax on food – as well as on diapers and feminine hygiene products, other proposals in Governor Kelly’s “Axing Your Taxes” plan – would benefit every Kansan, but would have a particularly positive impact on our rural residents.

Governor Kelly’s “Axing Your Taxes” plan is estimated to save our state over $500 million in the next three years. This plan will put money back in our families’ pockets and help reduce the financial burden too many of our families across the state face.

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