On Thursday, we flooded the halls of the Statehouse with grassroots activists telling their legislators not to raise our taxes to close the state's budget gap.

After a briefing on the Kansas budget from AFP-Kansas state director Derrick Sontag, activists marched to the Statehouse to visit legislative offices and even catch lawmakers out in the halls all with the same message: do not rely on taxpayers to fix this budget.

AFP is providing free chartered buses to Topeka on Thursday, April 30 for "Flood the Halls and Make the Calls." Details are below:

Wichita Area Bus

• 6:30 – 7 a.m. Loading Bus at Lawrence Dumont Stadium Parking Lot
• 7 a.m. Bus departs Wichita for Topeka
• 9:30 a.m. Arrive Dillon House, 404 SW. 9th Street, Topeka (Dillon House is located just west of the Statehouse)
• 3:30 – 4 p.m. Loading Bus at the Capitol (at the Dillon House)
• 4 p.m. Bus departs Topeka for Wichita (est. arrival 6:30 p.m.)

TOPEKA – The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-Kansas today released a study by Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics, analyzing the impact of the federal stimulus plan on the states.

According to the study, “The Economic Impact of Federal Spending on State Economic Performance,” the federal stimulus plan will be a long-term drain on the private sector. Donna Arduin, one of the study’s authors, will be in Topeka on Wednesday to discuss the findings with legislators.