Kansans in 2011 generally prefer keeping income, sales and property taxes at current levels, but the percentage favoring tax increases for corporations and high income earners has been on the increase since 2009, according to Dr. Gary Brinker, director of Fort Hays State University’s Docking Institute of Public Affairs. This is the third annual Kansas Speaks survey.

Tax increases for large corporations were favored by 63 percent of respondents (up from 54 percent in 2010 and 52 percent in 2009), and 58 percent favored tax increases for top income earners, which was up from 47 percent in 2010 and 41 percent in 2009.

Among the many survey questions, three recent hot-button issues: proof of citizenship for voting, elimination of the Kansas Arts Commission and repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

The Docking Institute’s Kansas Speaks findings are the result of a survey of 1,039 Kansas adults over the age of 18 who completed the survey by mail and by phone between June 21 and Sept. 2. The survey has a 3.04-percent margin of error.

The full report, Kansas Speaks 2011, is available in pdf form through a tab on the Docking Institute home page, www.fhsu.edu/docking/.