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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: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:44PM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:44PM (#522762) Journal

    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.

    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.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:15PM (#522769)

    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

      by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday June 10 2017, @03:31PM (#523503) Journal

      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?