It tells me is you have little understanding of what happened.Another Republican fail....and they still think this is going to work on a national level? My own state, which has significant budgetary problems and a new Republican majority is looking at the same sort of legislation
Kansas Tax Cut Experiment Comes To An End As Lawmakers Vote To Raise Taxes
Kansas lawmakers have voted to roll back a series of major tax cuts that became an example for conservative lawmakers around the country but didn't deliver the growth and prosperity promised by Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican.
A coalition of conservative Republicans, some of whom voted for sweeping tax cuts in 2012 or defended them in the years since, sided with moderates and Democrats to override Brownback's veto of a $1.2 billion tax increase.
The law to increase taxes over the next two years comes as legislators seek to close a projected $900 million budget gap for that same period and bolster funding for K-12 schools under a Kansas Supreme Court order.
"It's a huge vote," said state Rep. Steven Johnson, a Republican and chairman of the House tax panel, adding that legislative leadership had explored many routes to find a tax solution that would gain sufficient support in both chambers. "It's a huge vote for looking for an option for Kansas among limited options."
Floor debates on taxes ran late into Tuesday evening, but in the end, 27 senators and 88 representatives rendered Brownback's veto — which had been handed down just hours earlier — irrelevant.
Passage of the tax bill brings to an end signature tax policies of the Brownback administration. Most of those policies were part of a 2012 law that exempted owners of more than 300,000 small businesses and became a political flashpoint in recent elections.
What the hell is wrong with you folks. Don't you think the overall American economy would have ANY affect on a city or state economy. How about some of you people explain to me how extremely well the American economy has been over the last 8 fricken years and the Kansas economy just couldn't keep up.
The "overall economy" has been improving over the past five years while Kansas has done the opposite. That ought to tell you something...