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Kansas: It Ain't Oz, Toto.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:42 PM

ELVISCHRIST



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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s attempt to make his state a model for Tea Party governance has ended in abject failure. Brownback’ massive tax cuts for the wealthy were supposed to create a Grover Norquist inspired utopia where the government could be drowned in an irrigation ditch, and the Sunflower State would morph into the land of milk and honey. Instead, the ruinous, ideologically-driven, tax cuts have starved the state of revenue, lowered its credit rating, and left gaping budget shortfalls.

Now Governor Brownback, once the undisputed champion of tea party economics, has waved the surrender flag. While he hasn’t specified all the details in his new budget proposal, he is calling for some “revenue enhancements” to help close the burgeoning state budget deficit. Revenue enhancements are Republican-speak for tax increases.

In the understatement of the decade, Brownback’s chief of staff, John Hummel lamented that, “Revenue didn’t come in quite as was projected”. Imagine that. Huge tax cuts don’t increase revenue to the state’s coffers. Faith-based economic policies may play well before a crowd of die-hard market fundamentalists, but in the real world, it takes more than an abiding faith in the market to raise revenues. Sometimes it takes taxes.



http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/11/kansas-tea-party-experiment-fai
ls-brownback-supports-tax-hikes.html




Wow. Cutting revenue doesn't result in increased revenue. Who could have guessed?

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Monday, January 12, 2015 2:43 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Expert economists and lawmakers saw this coming, yet, Brownback blindly declared success despite obvious facts pointing to the contrary. Kansas voters, sorry to say, got what they asked for - the stupidest governor in history.

They're in a hole so deep, they may come out speaking Chinese soon.


SGG


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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s attempt to make his state a model for Tea Party governance has ended in abject failure. Brownback’ massive tax cuts for the wealthy were supposed to create a Grover Norquist inspired utopia where the government could be drowned in an irrigation ditch, and the Sunflower State would morph into the land of milk and honey. Instead, the ruinous, ideologically-driven, tax cuts have starved the state of revenue, lowered its credit rating, and left gaping budget shortfalls.

Now Governor Brownback, once the undisputed champion of tea party economics, has waved the surrender flag. While he hasn’t specified all the details in his new budget proposal, he is calling for some “revenue enhancements” to help close the burgeoning state budget deficit. Revenue enhancements are Republican-speak for tax increases.

In the understatement of the decade, Brownback’s chief of staff, John Hummel lamented that, “Revenue didn’t come in quite as was projected”. Imagine that. Huge tax cuts don’t increase revenue to the state’s coffers. Faith-based economic policies may play well before a crowd of die-hard market fundamentalists, but in the real world, it takes more than an abiding faith in the market to raise revenues. Sometimes it takes taxes.



http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/11/kansas-tea-party-experiment-fai
ls-brownback-supports-tax-hikes.html




Wow. Cutting revenue doesn't result in increased revenue. Who could have guessed?


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Monday, January 12, 2015 5:57 AM

AURAPTOR

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Maybe they ought not have spent so much of the people's money in the first place ?

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Monday, January 12, 2015 10:56 AM

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Maybe they ought not have spent so much of the people's money in the first place ?

Governor Brownback surprised critics and supporters alike with the fervor of his gutting spending on social services and education, privatizing the state's Medicaid system, undermining the teacher's union, becoming the only state to entirely abolish funding for the arts, and – most significantly – pushing through the largest package of tax cuts in Kansas history. His avowed goal is to eliminate the state income tax altogether, a move that many predict will torpedo the budget and engender even more draconian cuts in spending. "Other Republican-led states have experimented with many of the same changes," Gramlich pointed out – the difference in Kansas being that Brownback "wants to make all of those changes simultaneously." -- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rogue-state-how-far-right-fa
natics-hijacked-kansas-20130612

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