Put them in Illinois: Billboards boast “Live tax free in Kansas”

While many people travel through Kansas on their way to someplace else, I suggest that the Sunflower State place some billboards in tax-weary and corruption-ruined Illinois.

From AP:

A program that seeks to persuade people from other states to move into rural parts of Kansas is taking aim at travelers making their way through the Flint Hills between Topeka and Wichita along the Kansas turnpike.

Three large aluminum signs have been affixed to turnpike overpasses promising outsiders a chance to “Live tax free in Kansas” and “Let Kansas pay your student loans.”

The pitch touts participation in the Rural Opportunity Zone initiative created three years ago by the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback to slow the decades-long population exodus from rural counties.

Under the law, qualified people who move from another state to a Rural Opportunity Zone county can have state income taxes waived for a maximum of five years. Counties in the program — the original list of 50 is set to expand to 77 — also can partner with the state to repay a maximum of $15,000 in college student loans held by the new residents.

Brownback is a Republican and the GOP has majorities in the state legislature.

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