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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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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 4, Informative) by Whoever on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:46PM (4 children)
Is there evidence that it works in the medium term, or is that just an excuse for the failure? Note that the tax cuts were initially implemented sufficiently long ago that medium term effects should be starting to show by now.
But let's take a simple view: no one wants to live in a state that can't provide education for their kids because the state can't pay its teachers.
Question: what do you call someone who wants to run a budget in such a way that you can't pay your essential bills? Answer: a Republican Governor.
Seriously, here we have a concrete example that tax cuts don't work in the way claimed by Republicans and what is the response from the right-wing posters here? Either crickets, mental gymnastics or lame attempts to deny the facts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @05:50PM
Depends on the state in which you are. Over in Washington, they're called Democrats. (Hi, Christine!)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 09 2017, @12:24AM (2 children)
You also have the 80s and the 90s showing that they can in fact help quite a lot. Really though our entire tax system needs scrapped and rewritten from the ground up. Preferably without relying on theft which is all involuntary taxation is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @10:39PM (1 child)
You actually believe a country will function, in a positive way for it's citizens, based on running it with 'voluntary' taxes? That's awesome, but I'll bite. Can you cite an example of a society that does that and which you would like the US to emulate?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday June 10 2017, @10:22AM
Well from personal experience I'm rather fond of the Chickasaw Nation's approach. They rake in enough through gambling and assorted investments that it pays for the whole tribe's healthcare entirely, quite a lot of municipal and county improvements for the areas we operate in, and a good deal more to boot.
Of course that would require quite a lot of rewriting to scale to the entire national population but I'm confident it could be done and cover governments actual essential jobs, though I utterly fail to care if it could keep up the entitlement spending which makes up the majority of our budget every year. Being my daddy is not an essential, or even desirable, government function.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.