Kansas throws in the towel on the Consevative Dream

Discussion in 'Politics' started by origin, Jun 7, 2017.

  1. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    Kansas has overridden a Governor Brownback veto blocking a roll back of the massive tax cuts. Not only have the tax cuts not stimulated growth but produced a huge deficit.

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  3. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    It's a major achievement made possible by the election of a more moderate state legislature. Kansas is and always has been a solid Republican state, but for the last several years the state has been mired in Republican extremism and crony capitalism. Prior to the last election a return to fiscal sanity wasn't possible. There was no way in hell Koch's legislators and governor would allow the Kochs to pay state income taxes.

    Brownback ruled the state legislature, and the Koch brothers ruled Brownback, and they still do. It's a good day for Kansans. A billion dollars more indebted, we can hope sanity or at least a semblance of fiscal sanity has returned to Kansas. After years of debt downgrades, underfunding Kansas schools, roads, and infrastructure, Kansans can rest easier today even though they will be paying higher taxes. The Kochs will once again pay income taxes in Kansas, their multiyear income tax free reign has at least been suspended, and their control of the state legislature weakened.
     
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  5. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Further proof that these "tax cuts" Trump wants to implement will NOT be beneficial to our economy what so fucking ever...

    Good job Kansas - now, get your shit together, balance the budget, and show us what happens when common sense prevails!
     
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  7. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    We should probably recognize certain points:

    (1) The "Brownback experiment" was fundamentally an adventure in supply-side economic manipulation, also known as "voodoo economics".

    (2) Even with the state's finances wrecked, the People of Kansas actually re-elected Sam Brownback.

    (3) The merit of these voodoo economics is best explained by the economist himself; Arthur Laffer considers the Brownback re-election the scientific validation of his economic theses.

    (4) This disaster is brought to you by people and political arguments invested in the belief that government does not and cannot work.​

    I don't so much mean to sweep it under the rug, but in some way it seems very nearly the obvious thing to do that we should simply file this policy misadventure alongside other examples of Sunflower wrongness. It is an almost proverbial question: "What's the matter with Kansas?"
     

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