The great Kansas experiment comes to a stall as the newly minted moderate GOP’ers have decided it is time to begin filling in Brownback’s budget shortfalls – PB/TK
Kansas GOP revolts, nearly overturns Gov. Sam Brownback’s billion-dollar failed experiment –
The wave of moderate Republicans who swept last year’s GOP primaries in Kansas should have been Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s first clue that a revolt was brewing in his own party. Fourteen conservative state legislators allied with the governor were ousted in favor of more moderate Republicans who were critical of America’s least popular governor and his failed trickle-down economics experiment in the Sunflower State.
On Wednesday the trend came to fruition and Brownback was delivered a stunning rebuke by Republicans in the Kansas House. Facing a budget shortfall that stands at more than $1 billion through June 2019, Republicans in Kansas recently passed a bill intended to help fill the state’s budget shortfall by rolling back several of Brownback’s tax cuts. Yet Brownback’s massive cuts were saved by Republican leaders in the state’s Senate.
After Brownback took office in 2011, he and the Republican-dominated legislature joined forces to cut the state’s already low tax rates even further. When Brownback eliminated the state income tax for partnerships, limited liability corporations and other similarly structured entities in 2012 and 2013, he promised it would act “like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.” But in 2015, for the fourth straight year, the gross state product’s growth rate was below that of the region and of the nation
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