James Franko, President of the Kansas Policy Institute, joins Garrett to explore the Sunflower State. Garrett & James discuss everything from the appropriate degree of doneness for a steak to Kansas tax reform. We learn that even flat Kansas has elevations to rival the Mountain State, and we dive into local Swedish art, the demographics of Kansas, increasing mechanization’s impacts on the local economy, and Trump’s legacy in the Great Plains.
Read about the history of “Bleeding Kansas” https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas#:~:text=Bleeding%20Kansas%20describes%20the%20period,killed%20between%201855%20and%201859.
What’s the Matter with Kansas? https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=what%27s+the+matter+with+kansas&qid=1635188011&sprefix=what%27s+the+matter+with%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1
What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan? https://www.amazon.com/What-Really-Matter-Kansas-Plan/dp/0898031826/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4RV8403XNMPF&dchild=1&keywords=what%27s+really+the+matter+with+kansas&qid=1635188040&sprefix=what%27s+really+the+matter+with+kansas%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1
Visit Mount Sunflower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sunflower
Explore the Flint Hills of Kansas https://www.flinthillsdiscovery.org/594/What-are-the-Flint-Hills
Learn more about Kansas and taxation and spending statistics through KPI’s Green Book! https://kansaspolicy.org/tag/2021-green-book/
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