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The Kansas Experiment: A Cautionary Tale for Tax Cuts
- bediger4000 4y agoMy mother and father live near Wichita. It was amazing to see everything sort of rust over the Brownback period. Also, the results of this experiment, tax revenue falling off a cliff, indicates that Kansas at least, and probably every other state taxes on the wrong side of the "Laffer Curve" for tax cuts to have the effect that doctrine says. That is, Republicans have been wrong about basic economics since the 1980s.
- slater 4y agoWow... "By 2017, National Public Radio reported state lawmakers were seeking to close a $900 million budget gap, following nine previous budget cuts. Earlier efforts to close budget gaps had left Kansas "well below national averages" in a wide range of public services from K-12 education to housing to police and fire protection." As the saying goes, Conservatives: Not Even Once!