I remember reading that, although to be fair, Missouri’s fiscal policies aren’t that much better. They just aren’t driving over the cliff as fast.
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I was thinking that myself. If it gets to the point where a State has gone so far down the rabbit hole that they have the infrastructure of a Third World country and the population has the education of hamsters, I’d say that attracting businesses (which add to revenue) will be difficult.
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This is good, and we need to see more of this nationwide. One of my greatest concerns about the state of the Federal government is that thanks to Grover Norquist, it may no longer be politically tenable to raise taxes at the national level for any reason.
Increases at the state level may pave the way for that, however. People need to understand that there is actually a relationship between the payment of taxes and the services one receives from the government.
Side note: Grover Norquist is also responsible for the Reagan Legacy Project, which is why most Americans regard that corrupt, ill-informed, senile old man as having been someone special. He was not, and his legacy is that we have people like Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Sam Brownback in office.
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What???!!!
Brownback in charge of U.S.- U.N. policy regarding food and agriculture?
Dr. Mengele in charge of the Office of Medical Ethics!
Oh, why not? It’s a consistent pattern, at least. We’ve got Tillerson in charge of State and Pruitt in charge of EPA.
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By adopting the tax cuts in the first place, Brownback was telling the world that its citizens are not worthy of public investment. Plain and simple.
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Yes. Some fun.
Who’d thunk it, giving rich folks massive tax cuts and not having a way to make up that lost revenue would be bad for a state?
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[quote=“kwoodgr, post:11, topic:56898, full:true”]
It’s hard to imagine anyone more stupid than Brownback.
[/quote] I live in Kansas and have watched the policies of Brownback and the other Koch purchased reactionaries (Koch Industries is based in Kansas) rapidly destroy a previously well functioning state government. It will take a generation just to repair the damage. And yes, Brownback is profoundly stupid. But I can name many other Republicans who share that state, starting with the pathetic human grotesque we call president, his vice-president Pence (aka Mike Dense), Paul Ryan, Charles and David Koch, the entire Mercer family, Betsy DeVos, all of Kansas’s representatives in Congress, most of the North Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Indiana, Oklahoma (you get the point) legislatures, Jason Chaffetz, Trey Gowdy, etc. etc… The Republican party swallowed the Laffer napkin kool-aid back with Reagan. Trickle down economics is stupid. To advocate it you must be stupid and anti-democratic - hence the membership of the modern Republican party.
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I don’t really follow it, but is Brown back just a flat-out psycho??
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So if a recession comes (not unlikely with trump around) and Kansas participates in it, watch the usual suspects claiming the tax increase is to blame.
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I’ve been watching Kansas for a while, it’s a nice look at the hillbilly in his natural habitat and how his brain, such as it is, works. It took the hillbillies a while to realize things weren’t going to well with this ‘trickle down’ economics.
The hillbillies who are running things however, don’t care whether it works, they get their bread buttered by the 1% and don’t give a fuck, frankly, whether their hillbilly districts suffer or not.
So you’ve got the hillbilly constituency of the country too stupid, uneducated and generally ignorant to respond to facts, logic and reason. And a hillbilly leadership that doesn’t really care.
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He was right about that…
Wow. Sanity and reason prevail in Kansas!
Here’s my prediction. When the new tax rates and revenue start alleviating the fiscal crisis cause by Brownback, and the job rate starts to climb, Brownback will claim it was HIS policies that are kicking in at last after 5 years of destruction! As predictable as rain!
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Brownstain keeps saying all is well while everyone else is drowning in red ink. Tax cuts will work. Trust me. Just need to cut spending more. Hey it’s only been 5 years. What an ideological moron.
You GOPers reelected him so I have little sympathy. You can’t cut spending below your minimum to sustain a state. FINALLY !! When it was no longer democrats suffering they decide change is needed. Only when it affects them and their families do they end the nonsense. SAD .
Wait… you mean the tax cuts for the rich HOLY, SACRED, REVERED JOB CREATORS didn’t trickle down to everything else and make the whole state better? Impossible! More fake news!
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Whoever said that states are the laboratories of democracy made a good point. It is very rare to see a definitive experiment in the field of economics. In this case, “trickle down” economic theory was implemented and disasterously failed to achieve its own success criteria.
Of course, that won’t persuade true believers who treat this kind of thing as ideology rather than a policy option.
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I’d really like to know what the breakdown is for that “330,000 farmers and business owners”. I’m willing to be the overwhelming majority of that number is businesses or agribusiness, and not the “traditional” family farm.
Several of those business owners are the coaches for the University football and basketball teams. They don’t get paid by the University, but “Coaching LLC” does. As an LLC, it pays no taxes and passes the income on to the coach.
Need I point out a coach is not a “job creator.”
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Actually, no matter the post I love this idea. It bothered me a lot when I first heard about it because of what he might inflict on the larger world. But since then I’ve seen what happens to anyone who gets sucked into Trump’s orbit, and can’t wait for that to happen to BB.
Regards,
Ministry of Truth
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