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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) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:23PM (8 children)
"during the tax cuts, Kansas' growth was lower than the country's overall growth."
Except, this isn't the relevant comparison, which makes it clear that this is a political spin. The useful comparison is: was Kansas' growth higher before or after the tax-cuts and can we identify confounding variables?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:49PM (4 children)
Before. Next question?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:34PM (3 children)
Way to miss the point. The question should have been asked and answered in the article and summary, rather than in the comment section of a news aggregation site. Instead, we got a comparison that tells us nothing about the results of the different policies.
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:44PM (2 children)
Obviously, the budget for answering things in the article or summary was cut in the last decade by Brownback of Brokeback and his Kansawian Republicans, so we'll be having none of that.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:15PM (1 child)
I see now that the article was constructed in this fashion in order to provide you with an opportunity for self-congratulation, since at least you are not as dumb as those stupid hicks from Kansas. That being the case, the articles omission of any useful data makes sense. Carry on.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday June 10 2017, @03:31PM
Nobody is as dumb as those stupid Republicans from Kansas, not even the Republicans from Kansas who are in the Legislature and voted to over-ride the Republican Gov'ner's veto. There was a book a while ago, titled "What's Wrong With Kansas". You should read it. But you can read, can't you? I have about had it up to here with all the Mu-fu**ing Republicans on this Mu-fu**ing Plain States!
If you seriously cannot read, and still believe in trickling-down economic theories, there is also a movie: at the Whatsthematterwithkansas [whatsthematterwithkansas.com] web site. My Gawd, y'all, there's even a sequel?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:53PM
What, you think anyone (and more specifically, anyone in Kansas) will listen to a reasoned analysis, using actual data? I wish you all the luck in the world, but I give you the same odds as an ice cube in hell.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
In what way is it not relevant?
A before/after comparison can be hugely misleading. The before may be during a national recession time and the after during a national recovery/boom time, or the reverse.
No. State to nation over the same time period is the only comparison that makes sense.
You, sir, are an idiot who is desperate to believe in failed policies, despite ample evidence of their failure. In other words, a Republican.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @04:33PM
I just tested my faucets and found out that yes, water is still wet. Not all conservatives have such massive logic and factual failures, but enough of them do. Until you clowns clean up your act and start correcting the dummies who think they're smart, well we're gonna keep having a bad time.