Taxes in Kansas probably won't be going down any time soon.

A Republican plan for cutting taxes in Kansas failed yesterday. The GOP-controlled Legislature was not able to gather enough votes to overturn Governor Laura Kelly's veto. The vote in the House was 81-42, leaving GOP leaders three votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Kelly’s veto last month. The GOP plan would have cut income, sales and property tax cuts by nearly $1.6 billion over the next three years. Republican leaders haven’t been able to get past Kelly’s strong opposition to their plan to move Kansas to a single-rate personal income tax from the current three-tier tax. Opponents of the tax cuts believe the plan would favor wealthy taxpayers too much.