Discussion for article #237519
This reminds me of the “I’m not touching you” game we used to play in the back seat of the car on long trips as children, holding a finger out just barely not touching your sibling and saying “I’m not touching you” over and over to tease the shit out of them until you get yelled at to “cut it out back there!!!” FUCKING. CHILDISH.
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“You’ve got to look at the totality of the picture,”
And here it is:
“the poorest 20 percent of the state’s residents will pay 1.5 percent more in taxes than they did in 2012, or an average of $197 a year. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1 percent will pay 1.9 percent less, or an average of about $24,600”
Any questions?
Kansas is about 3M people. 20% is 600,000 and 1% is 30,000. Math time:
600,000 x $200 = $120M
30,000 x -$25,000 = -$750M
So the poor have been asked to not only subsidize massive $750M tax cuts for the wealthiest to the tune of $120M BUT ALSO to suffer all the cuts to things like public education, programs to assist the poor, etc., that fund the other $630M.
Edit: Changed per correction below.
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Yeah, don’t worry Kansas. You know that thing that’s fucking up our state on an unimaginable scale? We’re still fully committed to that. Just making some adjustments.
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And oher than state, federal and local taxes, I pay no taxes at all.
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Ah, the governor of KansASS is lyin’ for the Lord again!
Next up, Sammy will go on Fox News to say that he’s increased the chocolate rations for everyone in KansASS from 10 to 5 grams!
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I’m surprised Brownback didn’t trot out “revenue enhancement” which to R is a prettier form of taxation.
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.” --George Orwell, 1984
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there is no way that the people of kansas can be stupid enough to eat this shit pie 3 times a day everyday.
But then again, I could be wrong.
Brings back a song. Dust In the Wind
Next: Kansas gold suppository with private security and a huge prision. Just like texasssss
progress, gop style.
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Gov. Brownback please explain what a tax increase really is? I’m soooo confused.
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You have no idea how powerful Koch fueled propaganda can be if that is the only thing you hear.
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The Classic Teabagger Fallback:
“We’re not doing what we’re doing.”
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Brownback left out of his presser the revelation he’s really a Negro.
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It’s all over the interwebs.
Robbing the needy to appease the greedy. Kansas Bible Belters and the money-changers in bed together. A marriage made in hell!
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They’re a series of tubes. Get with the times. Tubes.
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Other than than the one-percenters of Kansas are getting the shaft, but that is what they want. Brownback screw them in his first term, voters came back for more, so Brownback has no choice but oblige.
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… that is not accurate.
Yeah… That’t the ticket! And me and my wife…, Morgan Fairchild…
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Reminds me of Humpty Dumpty.
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He doesn’t have to explain anything at all. He made a mess in his first term and voter re-elected him, basically begging for more.
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