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In his State of the State address, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) outlined a major income tax overhaul:

I’m proposing a major step in overhauling our state tax code to make it fairer, flatter, and simpler.  My tax plan will lower individual income tax rates for all Kansans.  It brings the highest tax rate down from 6.45 percent to 4.9 percent, the second lowest in the region – and lowers the bottom tax bracket to 3 percent.  My plan also eliminates individual state income tax on most small business income.

As we modernize our tax code and lower everyone’s rates, it is also time to level the playing field and simplify state taxes by eliminating income tax credits, deductions, and exemptions while expanding assistance to low-income Kansans through programs that are more effective and accountable.  I firmly believe these reforms will set the stage for strong economic growth in Kansas – and will put more money into the pockets of Kansas families and businesses.  Growth that will allow us to further reduce tax rates and increase our competitiveness.  Gro

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The British Insurance Brokers Association welcomed the publication of the Treasury Committees report on the Financial Conduct Authority today.

Eric Galbraith, BIBA chief Executive, said, “The Treasury Committee should be applauded for the breadth of this report. The formation of the FCA is a real opportunity to get the right regulation in place,”

The report offered a number of recommendations for the governments consideration ahead of the drafting and publication of the Financial Services Bill this year.

Among the recommendations was the promotion of competition in the regulatory framework. The treasury said that the Government should legislate to give the FCA a primary objective to promote effective competition for the benefit of the consumer.

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I’m so excited to be joining the What’s My Score team as a guest blogger. Starting this week you’ll see occasional posts from me on a topic that really matters to me—financial education. I’m passionate about helping to make sure everyone has the money management skills they need. I’ve worked in the field of financial education for over 10 years—focused particularly on financial literacy for women and young people, so I’ve seen how money problems can impact a person’s confidence and prevent them from living their most productive and independent lives. Hopefully my posts will give you a few ideas about my own financial choices and tips I’ve learned for using credit wisely and living well on a budget along the way.

You may have seen some of my writing before in LifeTuner and Forbes.com, or read the The Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money, which I worked on as well. If you haven’t, feel

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The battering Tesco shares have taken as spooked investors ditched them can be taken as a clear warning that 2012 has the potential for a nasty stock market crash.

Tesco delivered a trading update that was poor in terms of UK sales. The supermarket giant is struggling in its own backyard, as consumers cut back and analysts have been sniping at its sliding like-for-like UK sales.

Despite those local troubles, Tesco has been consistently growing profits at a robust rate and that has kept its share price bobbing along. What did for it this morning was a hint of caution on that.

It said: ‘We expect Group trading profit growth to be around the low end of the current consensus range.’  And thus the shares of one of our most successful companies, that many were arguing was already undervalued, plunged 15 per cent.

Over the past decade, shares of Intuitive Surgical , a niche maker of robotic surgical equipment, rose from $10 per share to the $460s. Since March 2009, the bottom of the previous bear market, shares have quadrupled. Today, with its trailing P/E at 40, shares can hardly be considered cheap, but analysts believe that with the expansion of its robotic line to other medical procedures, Intuitive Surgical may be well poised to grow exponentially. There are plenty of skeptics who are bearish on Intuitive Surgical after all, with the economy still in fragile state, are hospitals and medical facilities about to spend heavily on robotic surgeons? What separates it from the pack of “future stocks” such as solar power companies or Tesla Motors which have all been severely punished for their speculative forecasts?

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Yesterday when the markets closed the price of oil was only 66 cents shy of $100. What a come back. We expected oil, stocks and gold to sink down deep…and not come back for a long time. So far, we’re wrong about that. People are still sending money to Wall Street to buy stocks and gold.

Where is all this money mail coming from? We don’t know exactly, but there are foreign stamps on many of the envelopes. Foreign stock markets are down. Many of the leading foreign bonds are down too. Investors look at Italy; they see Vesuvius. They look at France; they see Dunkirk. They look India; they see a Black Hole.

Investors are afraid. They look to the USA for safety.

But oil? Hmmm… We don’t know the cause, but we have a pretty clear idea of the consequence. High oil prices make it harder for oil- dependent US households to make ends meet…thereby reinforcing the slump in consumer spending.

Yes, the Great Correction proceeds. Low l

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