Magical Business Fairies, are … are those real? That’s sarcasm, isn’t it!! You bastid!!! You had me going there for a minute … let Kansas destroy itself. Human filth like Brownsack should be horsewhipped and run out of the state on a rail.
PS: Whatever healthcare executives backed Brownsack can eat excrement and die.
2 Likes
Robbing Aetna to pay Koch.
3 Likes
Brownback, short for Shitferbrains
That’s just because the magic hasn’t happened yet because taxes weren’t cut enough. You have to just keep cutting until you see that uptick. Don’t worry about kids not being educated or roads and bridges falling apart because freedom.
2 Likes
Yep, my feelings, too. Voting as consequences. Screw 'em.
This is whats the matter with Kansas. Elections have consequences the same as cutting taxes makes revenue go away. Enjoy jayhawkers you reap what you sow
1 Like
“my sympathy for them in their resulting mess is sharply limited.”
Amen
Probably when the voters realize they screwed up and firebomb the governor’s mansion…
1 Like
Christ, what an asshole.
Sorry if I was a bit murky @ignoreland
I really meant don’t just repeat claims and leave it at that -or- at least just report the truth of the situation.
So in this example; don’t report that the “deficit is projected to grow to near $500 million if lawmakers don’t pass new insurance taxes” because that’s certainly not the only option - yet TPM is reporting it as if it’s the only option.
Maybe report the truth by merely saying; ‘deficit is projected to grow to near $500 million if lawmakers don’t take action and they’re focused on new insurance taxes.’
I’m not asking for some outlandish never-before-heard-of-in-journalism thing - and I’m not asking TPM to solve a state’s budget problem - I’m only asking them to report the truth of the situations they cover.
2 Likes
Bend over and take it like a man.
Back in DC law school one of my classmates worked on the hill for him when he was a senator. Poor classmate.
“KS Governor explains what he intends to do to Kansans:”
You got THAT right! hat he plans to do TO Kansans…not FOR Kansans.
Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if Aetna and all the other HMOs in Kansas close up shop?
Silly me, I keep forgetting what Joni Ernst says–the churches will step in and take care of the truly sick and needy…
I thought the same thing: Brownback will blame Obamacare. And the idiots who voted Brownback into office for a second time will swallow it hook line and sinker.
Sure we do. That is, the majority of voters who a) are allowed to vote, b) have access to polls and c) live in carefully gerrymandered districts so that only a few are Dem and the rest Rep. That’s what you see in the House, where in spite of voter suppression a solid majority of Dems nationwide managed to elect way less than half Dem representatives. And of course a couple of previous Presidential elections, etc. It doesn’t help that tiny populations in some states still have two Senators–and that those are the states whose scattered people have limited information, mostly filtered through churches and a “liberal” MSM where RW candidates and their supporters are encouraged to lie a lot.
Yes, a majority of Kansans by this definition voted these creeps back into office, but a lot of Kansans weren’t allowed to vote, and Reps have pretty well sewn up the House District structure in the state. That doesn’t take a lot in a state that has historically been moderate with a pretty balanced structure.
And not just Aetna… those companies tend to follow the herd, and Brownback’s stupid notion would hit them all.
My own belief is that these results are quite as intended by Brownback et al. He’s well on the way to drowning KS government in a bathtub, and I think it’s no “unintended consequence”. The Koch Bros. must be beside themselves with joy. After all these folks do not care in the least about infrastructure (they have their own transportation and communications networks, schools, etc.) or an “informed populace” or civil rights, human welfare, or any such ludicrous concerns. A few states turned like this, and a few more restrictions removed, and they won’t have to buy properties in Uruguay to get 3rd world slavish conveniences and kowtowing.
I wish there were no term limits this time so Brownback would have to run again. The next gubernatorial election will mean a new Rep candidate, who will probably run on fixing KS, thereby retrieving the Rep votes, only to continue the mayhem after election. Kind of like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football.
1 Like
Isn’t it funny no matter which of the corporate profit-taking titans get “taxed”, their solution is to let the shit run down hill. Hey, they have a right to their profits and can’t let those be impacted!