It makes good funny but it’s not Kansas picking up the tab but rather everyone else. Much like Texas funds its “boom”.
Just be patient, we all know that these tax cuts will inevitably result in an economic boom of biblical proportions that will fill state coffers to overflowing.
He certainly didn’t, but Sebelius didn’t have to take the job, either. She effectively screwed her own political career by doing so, since she eventually took much of the blame—unfairly or not—for the disastrous rollout of the ACA website. However, she was term-limited out at the end of her second term in 2010, so she wouldn’t have been able to run against Brownback then anyhow.
Yep, we all are swimming in the same GOP managed sewer.
He doesn’t care about people suffering. It seems that he is upset because he gets jeered and yelled at in public.
Sebelius got 491,993 votes in 2006. Paul Davis got just over 401,000 in 2014. That’s a lot of people who either sat home in 2014 or voted outright for Brownback. There’s no evidence I’ve seen for 91,000 Dem votes being suppressed by Kobach, although he’d certainly try.
Just guessing, but I think the Koch brothers would like the title to the state of Kansas for that outlay. It’s like buying a used car.
When you find your policies aren’t working, but you continue to double down, what does that say about you?
Wouldn’t a reasonable person reassess the situation and change policies accordingly? This is what happens when ideology becomes your God.
You have to have a conscience to cry
Once again I note that the greatest thing about last fall’s KS gubernatorial election was that Brownback won…and had to directly deal with the disaster his policies have created. I am sure Grover Norquist is calling him nightly to console him.
Wait. So have they raised taxes yet? The article doesn’t mention if they have or if that is one of the “options on the table.”
Seems like a no brainer to me - Oh, maybe we should undo that thing we shouldn’t have done in the first place!
“Blasphemy! Heresy!” said Grover Norquist.
There is speculation that the election was rigged.
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article17139890.html
As of last Wednesday, this is the bill passed by the Senate - the House had agreed to most everything with a few technical changes. Also, the House was able to include a 24 million tax increase on business:
Raise sales tax from 6.15 percent to 6.55 percent; $187.7 million. Sales tax on food to drop to 4.95 percent in July 2016.
Eliminate most itemized deductions, reduce taxpayers’ deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes paid; $97 million.
Eliminate food sales tax credit for poor families, seniors and people with disabilities; $15 million.
Increase cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack to $1.29; $40.4 million.
Provide amnesty on penalties to people who agree to pay back taxes owed; $30 million.
Postpone scheduled decrease in income tax rates on wage earnings; hold rates at 2.7 percent in low bracket and 4.6 in upper bracket; $26.4 million.
Tax guaranteed payments to owners of pass-through businesses who currently pay no state income tax; $23.7 million.
Require Social Security number for tax credits; $15 million.
A separate bill increased the “privilege fee” tax on managed-care health plans; $47.8 million.
Policy provisions
Sets Dec. 31, 2019, as an automatic expiration date for virtually all sales and property tax exemptions, except those for churches, agriculture, business-to-business transactions and select health-care-related purchases.
Establishes a tax study commission to determine whether any exemptions eliminated by the automatic expiration should be retained.
Requires cities and counties to hold a public election to raise property tax income by more than the rate of inflation.
Allows private schools to directly receive money from a tax-credit funded scholarship program, to accommodate students whose parents pay for schooling by tithing to their church.
Starting in 2019, requires automatic tax cuts if state income grows more than 3 percent in a year, adjusted for required spending on pensions and Medicaid.
I like this Brownbackistan song by a Kansas artist: ( click on more for the lyrics)
So Brownback has started experimenting with expressing human emotions? He should be careful – that can be a gateway feeling to having actual empathy.
That little gesture was cut from the bill in the wee hours this morning.
But we never elected him the first time!
“He was eager for us to come together as a party.”
“…to finish off the state for good!” he added.
No worry for him in this regard - he is light-years away from having any human empathy.
Wow. So increase taxes on the poor and for those that have decent healthcare. Ugh.