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Not much doubt about Brownbackian economics; "“Sometimes your legacy is not fully appreciated until after you’re gone.” His legacy is a smoking hole in the budget and a laughingstock response.
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So the looney Republicans had to back down and raise taxes. When I saw the headline, I bet myself it wasn’t the rich who were paying those taxes–and I’m right about that. It is the middle and lower classes, as usual. If this motley crew gets re-elected, then the voters deserve to be screwed again.
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So they continue to lower taxes on rich people, making up for the money by raising taxes on poorer people. (Sales taxes are regressive because the less money you make the higher a proportion of your income you spend on things subject to sales tax, and cigarette taxes ditto because smoking skews lower-income – partly because nicotine is a relatively cheap self-medication for stress.)
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I’ll tell ya, I know more than a few Republicans here who are not happy with Brownback, and by that I mean terribly unhappy. They see exactly what he’s doing, shifting the tax burden from the haves to the have nots.
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Did Brownback get a special dispensation from His Holiness, Grover Norquist?
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“smokers will be paying 50 cents more for each pack of cigarettes.”
Cigarette sales will decline in Kansas and pick up in the states bordering it. I doubt this was admitted to or factored in the projected increased revenues to state coffers. More delusion and denial.
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New Kansas bumperstickers: Our ideology can kick your reality’s ass. It’s not a tax hike; it’s just higher prices. It trickles down. It trickles up. Nobody knows how. Our schools believe in creative accounting, not creative writing.
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And the smokers will be picking up the slack.
Republicans who pushed the plan said its tax increases have to be seen in the context of the income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013, which the Legislature’s top tax analyst said could be worth $900 million annually.
…the increase represents about 11 percent of the tax break they received — and critics suggested it will be relatively easy to avoid.
Republicans have all but admitted that the people who benefited the first time around won’t get hit this time.
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Instead, they raised the state’s sales tax to one of the highest rates in the nation … but it’s not yet clear whether they’ve created long-term fiscal stability.
Has shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle and working classes in a manner that decreases demand by making the consumption of goods more expensive ever created long-term fiscal stability?
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“You can’t just cut taxes and keep your spending the way it is
and expect some sort of magic to balance it.”
Isn’t that the bases of all RWNJ dogma?
In South Carolina, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley couldn’t pass income tax cuts even after declaring,
“We are not doing what Kansas did.”
Yet Haley tried to do exactly what Brownback did-- and lied through her teeth doing so.
“It’s clearly a cautionary tale for other states to have in mind,” Gardner said.
Except nobody actually reads legislation anymore.
jw1
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Balance it on the backs of the “little people” because you have them bamboozled and in firmly in the control of your Theocratic desires (funded by the Bircher-Billionaires who profit from their misery.)
Typical Republican response.
“It’s all the LIBERALS fault that we destroyed the states finances!!! If only you had all PRAYED HARDER it will work!!”
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??? Bbbbbbutttt…More and larger tax cuts for the 1% are the only way to fix it, Gov Browneye’! And…and…and when all that trickle down manna from heaven from St. Ronnie Reagan finally arrives…well, economic paradise awaits Kansas! Tax increase? The ghost of Deadbart and Grover Nadtwist’ curse you…oh ye’ of little faith!
NEVER GETS OLD!
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/trickle-down-reagan-e1421715294967.jpg
And …it did trickle down:
http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Trickle-Down-Economics.jpg
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CHAOS!!!
And still they refuse to expand medicaid, which might have mitigated this disaster at least a little.
Their obsession with tax cuts to the wealthy is beginning to look like desperate failure, even to their own party.
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Brownback Mountain…
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Just the name … eeewww – sounds like he has a little santorum leaking down the mountain, there. These people (Kansas Republicans) are just gross.
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Here in Oklahoma we’re still pretending that magical thinking is an actual fiscal policy. They can come here to buy their cigarettes, fully protected by a Governor and Legislature that won’t take responsibility for their actions. Hey, we’ll just raid the highway funds again! Schools just need to avoid hiring non-essential personnel like coaches, librarians, art teachers, and administrators! We can add mandates to the schools with no funding, because magic!
And if, by chance, the revenues do increase, we have built in tax cuts to ensure that we never have enough money to pay our bills ever again. We’ll just keep on blaming the public sector for being wasteful.
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Are those positions required to impart Jesus rode a dinosaur to home school every day and the Earth is 6000 years old? I think not. What else but those two facts does a God fearing Christian child need to know to enter the 21st century adult workforce?
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They didn’t back down. They raised taxes on working Kansans. The Kochs get to keep their tax cuts.
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Trickle down economics, is trickling all over the poor. Since sales taxes are of the most detrimental to the poorer amongst us.
On one hand I am furious, on the other…tough shit, you elected this clown, TWICE!
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