Five Kansas legislators serving Shawnee County residents sounded alarm bells Tuesday about persistently weak state tax collections and election-year complications of adjusting the state’s budget during the 2016 session starting in January.
“Budget, budget, budget. Money, money, money,” said Sen. Vicki Schmidt, a Topeka Republican. “That is going to be the focus of the next session.”
“There is no money to do anything,” said Democratic Rep. Annie Kuether, a Topeka legislator for two decades. “This is without a doubt the most challenging time ...