University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1983
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Tax
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Supreme Court strikes it down, we've got a $100 million shortfall. We don't have room for a 100 million shortfall.
Vancurum's proposal altered the severance tax plan sent to the House by the Assessment and Taxation Committee. The committee recommended a 4 percent tax on oil and a 7 percent tax on natural gas. Also, the committee plan would increase the taxes on oil and gas revenues to counties that produce oil and gas.
THE TAX ISSUE drew lengthy debate from opponents who protested taxing royalty owners. They also complained that the severance tax would knock small producers out of business.
The House included royalty owners in the proposal, a tax source Gov. John Carlin had not suggested taxing. Royalty owners receive property or gas pumped from the property they lease.
"I think the royalty owner is getting an unfair slap," said State Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugleton. "I don't think there was a mandate out there that we were going to stick to it about 200,000 royalty dollars."
Farrar told the House that 50,000 royalty owners lived in Kansas. However, the proposal lost hardly because opponents said they wanted to tax 50,000 out-of-state royalty owners.
STATE REP. James Braden, R-Clay Center and chairman of the Assessment and Taxation Committee, supported the proposal to include royal owners and helped House Democrats fend off attempts to hang amendments on the severance tax.
"I think it's really hard to justify having the severance tax and not including royalty
Among House members supporting the proposal was State Rep. Ambrose Dempsey, D-Leavenworth, a 1940 KU graduate, who said he had put her burden of a waiver tax for 28 years.
In 1987, when Dempsey was a member, the House passed a severance tax that survived for six months and generated nearly $2 million, he said.
HOWEVER, THE Kansas Supreme Court ruled the measure was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment.
Dempsey said he was concerned that words in the current proposal could lead the high court to reject his case.
The severance tax bill says that oil is produced, Dempsey said, but it is actually not.
House members who drafted the proposal have said they used the word produced because it is a more neutral term.
that most of the people were still trapped inside the buildings.
The office of President Belfarisio Betancur said reports from the Red Cross and Civil Defense workers confirmed at least 100 people were killed and 1,150 others were hurt.
Quake
"We are dedicating all our energies to this tragedy," Bentena said in a visit to the city.
THERE WERE NO reports of Americans among the casualties, but Jim Corey, naval attaché of the U.S. Embassy,飞来 to Poyanguang to feed the food and clothing and began looking for tourists.
Popayan is known worldwide for its Holy Week celebration that swells its local population of thousands.
One thousand Americans and Europeans were believed to be in the town attending the annual religious music festival, services and evening candlelight processions of Holy Week.
Four professors of musical performance from Columbia University in New York were scheduled to play during evening services at the church, which was reported slightly damaged.
They were not injured and were evacuated safely to neighboring Cali, said Fred Kubiel, principal of the hospital.
It was the most serious earthquake in Colombia since December 1979 when 700 people died and thousands were wounded along the Pacific coast.
Fuel
— at an estimated cost of $30 a year to the average motorist. Of the 5 cent-gallon increase, 4 cents will go for highways and 1 cent for mass transit.
The U.S. law is adding about $4.4 billion to this year's highway program, raising federal funding.
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THE ASSOCIATED General Contractors estimated that for each $1 billion spent on the project, the company would pay
The state tax would also go toward revamping highways, but some state senators did not think so.
Increasing the gas tax will hurt the economies of border counties, because people in those areas are much more likely to buy gas.
State Rep. Don Mainey, D-Toppea, told the Ways and Means Committee that the gasoline tax was already higher than it was in neighboring states of Missouri and Oklahoma.
"THE KEY TO me is whether this state will ever take responsibility for its highways," he
But State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, said that gas prices varied as much within the state as they did between Kansas and bordering states.
State Rep. Ruth Lazzati, D-Topeka, said that the bill was a Republican attempt to slip a tax increase through the Legislature that the governor and Democratic lawmakers opposed.
Salary
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dation showed that the state was not serious about supporting higher education.
"It will certainly cause us to lose some top people who will go elsewhere," he said. "The Regents schools already took a terrible cut last summer! I think some other budget areas should be taken."
JOE COLLINS, legislative lobbyist for the Classified Senate, said, "I support a 4 percent increase, provided the public schools receive only a 4 percent increase."
Carlin has recommended a $486 million budget for state school districts, which would allow some school teachers a 7 percent to 8 percent salary increase.
to show that the state was facing a shortage of school teachers and that teachers' salaries in the state were too low.
Kansas ranks 38th in the nation with an average teachers' salary of $1,924.
"I know school districts in the state that have plenty of teachers and plenty of teachers waiting in line. Collins said, "I'm not mad at Carlin. I don't mind." The availability of public school teachers."
HOWEVER, Carlo Kriw, superintendent of the Lawrence School District, said the state had a shortage of science, mathematics, special education and vocational education teachers.
Collins said he disagree with data Carlin used
Knox said he did not share Collins' view that
University employees and school teachers were battling for state money.
"I don't think university professors are paid够 and I don't think school teachers are paid够. "Knox said. "We're putting much too much emphasis on contribution education is making in our society."
Seaver and Collins said they thought Carlin could avoid delaying faculty and state employee pay raises if he turned to other revenue-raising sources, such as raising the state gasoline and sales taxes.
Collins said classified employees had suffered through an especially poor year. Although they received a 6.5 percent pay raise last year, Carlin did not give them merit pay increases.
Appeal
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allowed to call witnesses or confront our acusers " he said
Rowe said that another problem was the ambiguity of the exact definition of "elec-
tron." Rowe's explanation is
HE SAID HE had asked the current and past AURH presidents for the definition of electioneering. But the election committee changed the date after it decided against Walker and he said.
Rowe said that changing the rules after the election was not legal. He heard that the committee had already decided to find Walker and him guilty before the meeting even look
"After the hearing, the committee went to 'Webster's for a definition,' he said.
Walker said he also thought the election committee did not give either Rows or him a fair
"The election committee was overzealous to rectify the decision and did not take enough time."
HOWEVER, Bob Jolly, Derby special student and a member of the election committee, said
the committee had carefully considered the testimony given at the meeting and had made its
Jolly said the appeals board should have decided whether the candidates violated the rules instead of delegating the decision to another committee.
"It is important that a neutral committee hear the matter," Jolly said.
The appeals board should not include hall presidents in the new committee because of their relationship to AURH, he said.
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