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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
Right, so the states on the Coast are not the primary beneficiary of a CROSS FUCKING COUNTRY highway system that links both coasts?
This nonsense about comparing in-flow and outflow of money is pure utter bullshit. A lot of the Federal spending in Red states is for shit they either don't want or don't use. And the things that do benefit them directly by generating economic activity, are good for the nation as a whole. It allows for spreading of capital around the country, which also spreads the population around the country. Last thing you want is your whole country's population in two fucking places. It would be an economic, environmental, and strategic disaster.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NewNic on Thursday June 08 2017, @09:51PM
Actually, no.
There is this small project called the Panama canal. It makes shipping products from coast to coast by sea very practical.
What you are saying is that landlocked states that would have very poor access to both the big coastal markets and ports benefit less than the coastal states from interstate highway system? LOL.
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