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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback somehow survives his failed economic experiment
Part of that pain, however, has come from substantial budget cuts, especially to education and other popular government services. Indeed, at a time of slow but general economic recovery in the US when most states are restoring education budget cuts from the recession, Kansas has been one of the few states cutting education investment.
However, the same electorate that gave him a second term also said in the exit poll that his tax cuts hurt rather than helped the economy by a 52%-41% margin.
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Failed GOP 'experiment' backfires
KANSAS CITY, Kansas — After riding a landslide victory into the governor’s mansion in 2010, Kansas Republican Sam Brownback laid out an agenda straight out of any conservative’s dreams. Carving taxes and spending down to the bone, Brownback’s “real live experiment” was supposed to lift Kansas out of the recession and into economic prosperity.
Instead, the test case is unraveling into a monstrous failure.
Instead, budget projections put Kansas at a $300 million revenue shortfall at the end of the state’s fiscal year in July. The state’s bond rating has since been downgraded in part because of the massive tax cuts, and not just once, but twice.
Simonich said she was especially angered by Brownback’s campaigning in trying to claim credit for the successful school districts that he cut funding to.
“He’s killing us,” she said. “He’s killing Kansans.”
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When Bush and the GOP were swept into office, they followed GOP policies to the letter expecting an enormous economic boon. The wealth of the nation redistributed to the top 1% and wham, enormous deficits and jobs moved to China.
But Republicans blamed all that on the Iraq war and eventually on Obama.
But Sam Brownback decided he would show the Nation, the world and other Republicans how it's done. His failure was even greater than Bush's. Without a war in Iraq to blame it on, everyone is seeing the disaster that are Republican's economic policies. Move the wealth to the top 1% and screw the children, the schools, the middle class, education, the poor and everyone even close. And what do you end up with? A ruined state that business wants nothing to do with and enormous deficits. What a mess.
Part of that pain, however, has come from substantial budget cuts, especially to education and other popular government services. Indeed, at a time of slow but general economic recovery in the US when most states are restoring education budget cuts from the recession, Kansas has been one of the few states cutting education investment.
However, the same electorate that gave him a second term also said in the exit poll that his tax cuts hurt rather than helped the economy by a 52%-41% margin.
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Failed GOP 'experiment' backfires
KANSAS CITY, Kansas — After riding a landslide victory into the governor’s mansion in 2010, Kansas Republican Sam Brownback laid out an agenda straight out of any conservative’s dreams. Carving taxes and spending down to the bone, Brownback’s “real live experiment” was supposed to lift Kansas out of the recession and into economic prosperity.
Instead, the test case is unraveling into a monstrous failure.
Instead, budget projections put Kansas at a $300 million revenue shortfall at the end of the state’s fiscal year in July. The state’s bond rating has since been downgraded in part because of the massive tax cuts, and not just once, but twice.
Simonich said she was especially angered by Brownback’s campaigning in trying to claim credit for the successful school districts that he cut funding to.
“He’s killing us,” she said. “He’s killing Kansans.”
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When Bush and the GOP were swept into office, they followed GOP policies to the letter expecting an enormous economic boon. The wealth of the nation redistributed to the top 1% and wham, enormous deficits and jobs moved to China.
But Republicans blamed all that on the Iraq war and eventually on Obama.
But Sam Brownback decided he would show the Nation, the world and other Republicans how it's done. His failure was even greater than Bush's. Without a war in Iraq to blame it on, everyone is seeing the disaster that are Republican's economic policies. Move the wealth to the top 1% and screw the children, the schools, the middle class, education, the poor and everyone even close. And what do you end up with? A ruined state that business wants nothing to do with and enormous deficits. What a mess.
