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The Republican-controlled house and senates of Kansas voted to increase taxes and to override the governor's veto of a bill to increase taxes.
The current governor pushed through tax cuts, intended to grow Kansas' economy, but during the tax cuts, Kansas' growth was lower than the country's overall growth.
The increase follows years in which the state was unable to balance its budget, and the funding for education was found to be unconstitutionally low.
In my view, state budgets are likely to take a hit from Trump's stealth tax increase: by reducing funding for programs and forcing the states to step in, the states will have to find extra money to fill the gaps.
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Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:02PM (1 child)
This might be true, but even so, I don't want too many Mississippians to die during this experiment.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 09 2017, @11:46AM
I can't really tell from your post what you think is more important - semantics tail-chasing to further someone's talking points or the lives of Mississippians. A lot of people say certain things are important to them - and then act differently. And such "important" things seem introduced, as in this case, to matters where they're quite irrelevant. It's not going to matter to the lives of those people you mentioned whether the Trump action actually were a tax increase or not.
It probably does matter to the lives of said Mississippians to a modest degree how gullibly people respond to such language, but to be honest, anyone who would be persuaded by such language probably is already anti-Trump and in opposition to the current Trump scheme. I see this more as an example of cognitive impairment where someone is accepting of a rather contrived narrative because it confirms a desired bias rather than because it's going to have a misleading effect on peoples' political opinions.