It’s been a weird week for sales taxes in Wichita, as local citizens grapple with an upcoming March 3 vote on whether to impose a 1% tax on their purchases.
It started out with the people who proposed the tax, a well-funded but heretofore unknown entity called Wichita Forward, running TV commercials equating opposition to the tax plan with being a fellow traveler of the Kansas Communist Party, (which by the way rose from 87 Facebook followers to 118 after the ads began running).
And the City Council held its first public hearing — three hours long — on putting “guardrails” around the five “buckets” of money that will flow into City Hall if the tax passes…