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posted by n1 on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the other-people's-money dept.

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by tekk on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:38PM (1 child)

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:38PM (#522726)

    It seems reasonable enough to call it a stealth tax increase: Federal gov. is reducing its funding to the states without decreasing taxes, therefore forcing the states to raise their taxes to make up for the shortfall to maintain the same level of service.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 09 2017, @02:55AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 09 2017, @02:55AM (#522907) Journal
    Ok, why does it seem reasonable? It is not actually a tax increase - not even an implied one. We haven't established, for example, that the services being defunded would even be replaced by state governments. Second, this could result in an overall long term decline in taxation due to less spending and borrowing.