They get Kansas tax breaks, and they ‘feel like freeloaders’

Being a Kansas attorney for energy interests pays well, thank you very much.

So for James P. Zakoura it just feels wrong to pocket an extra $6,000 at tax time, though state law lets him.

“I’d give that up in a second,” said the Overland Park lawyer, a six-figure earner for decades. “I don’t need it.”

But Kansas does, he said. Zakoura regrets that the state in which he was born and schooled has been gasping for extra revenue the past four years.

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