Discussion: Brownback's Tax Hikes For Health Companies In Danger Because Of Angry Healthcare Org

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KS Governor explains what he intends to do to Kansans:
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#Brownbacking - its like Santorum, but without the subtlety.

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“A little time” to whittle more services. Even Art knows the math doesn’t work according to Hayek’s prophecies. The private sector fires people for “blue sky forecasting” but Arty calls it “dynamic forecasting” and gets away with it.

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Brownback’s proposing raising taxes on businesses? He’s headed towards impeachment territory.

Taxes are for poor people. Tax cuts are for businesses and People Who Matter.

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So the cost gets passed onto their customers.

Isn’t that as regressive as you can get, and therefore, a good think according to Brownstain?

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Just turn that budget frown upside down!

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I have conflicted values on this subject. Aetna deserves less than zero sympathy and government doesn’t exist to do big businesses’ bidding. Still, it’s usually a good thing when Republicans turn on one another; it’s one of the few times they’ve odds over 50% to tell the truth.

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That sounds like a GOP Ponzi scheme.

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And the tax increases contemplated are sales/consumption taxes and fees, which are fall more heavily upon those with less disposable income; not a whisper about undoing the income tax cuts.

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Don’t know if I’d agree about Aetna and the inference they’re screwing their clients. They’ve been my secondary medical coverage for almost two years and for the spouse. The rates and coverage and deductible rates are comparable to what I had with BCBS for decades.

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I want to see brown trickling down Brownback’s legs.

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See Bush v Gore. See Bush v Kerry.

Sad.

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It’s such a simple concept. If the they spend it, you have to pay. If you don’t pay in direct tax, you’ll pay somewhere else. Direct tax is easy to see. Somewhere else is hidden.

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I guess the whole war with Iran and god knows who else overshadows this for me. I don’t really want it to be so bad that voters “get it” forever.

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Be interesting to see how many Aetna employees donated to Brownback’s campaign. Also be interesting to see what his whiskey-drinking cigarette smoking constituents will say about these proposals.

And calling it KanCare? Should be Don’tCare.

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It’s the real Laffer Curve, but ain’t nobody laffing.

@MarcJordan - guess you just proved there ain’t nuthin new under the sun. Did you have to do it with MY joke?

@BradBennett - this is the real long-term GOP election strategy: wear them out having to work 3 part-time jobs even when they’re sick, then they won’t show up at the polls.

@JasonsRobot - In this case, it isn’t TPM’s responsibility to search out the solutions to Kansas’ budget hole.

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That deficit is projected to grow to near $500 million if lawmakers don’t pass new insurance taxes.

C’mon TPM. Passing new insurance taxes are not the ONLY way to remedy the projected deficit. Jeeze.

Please, please, please stop merely repeating what people say and hitting ‘publish’ - add some basic outside-facts or counter-facts to the claims you’re reporting on.

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That’s a contradiction - Brownback’s name will be on the compulsory enema shack behind every diptheria ward in Kansas. Thus he gets both the building and the curses. And with any luck, sections of his body will be buried underneath each latrine.

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Then they would continue to blame Clinton for all ills, instead of using the handier Obama.

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But, but, what will Grover say?

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I have a great deal of sympathy for the hundreds of thousands of Kansas Democrats who voted in the last two elections against Brownback; they and their children don’t deserve what they’re suffering at the hands of these Republican kooks.

However, pulling back for a big-picture view, I believe strongly that ultimately it’s better for the country that Brownback was re-elected. If Paul Davis had won, then the onus would be on him and his Democratic colleagues in the Kansas legislature to fix the mess they would have inherited, and there’s no way they could have escaped the wrath of the vast swath of rural ignoramuses in that state who would blame them for raising their taxes.

Kansas is a hot-house laboratory exhibiting the logical culmination of Republican ideology of the last 40+ years. That ideology consists largely of a seething hatred for every aspect and function of government at all levels, a contempt for anybody who isn’t white, wealthy, and “Christian,” a desire to kill all vestiges of public secular education, and a mindless, fervently fact-free and essentially religious devotion to the notion that tax cuts always pay for themselves.

The destruction of public education in favor of a network of privately-owned religious charter schools is particularly desirable for the Koch brothers and their fellow reactionary billionaires who now control the GOP’s purse strings. An ignorant subservient working class population whose attention is focused on Armageddon and the Rapture is far less likely to agitate for reasonable wages, safe working conditions, sustainable energy, and healthy water, air, and food.

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