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kansas is the breadbasket of america and here you are laughing at them
Kansas Economy Craters, Revenues down 45% as Brownback Blames Obama
TOPEKA — Tax revenue in April dropped 45 percent from a year ago, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.The state’s revenue for the year is $92.9 million less than projected earlier this month.
The unexpected news weighed heavily on a joint committee of senators and House members who worked late into the night, trying to hammer out a budget in a wrap-up session that started Wednesday.
“It’s certainly impacting decisions. I mean any decision that would have included more spending is out the window obviously,” said Sen. Ty Masterson, R-Andover.
The state has taken in $480 million less overall than it had by this point in the last fiscal year.
The governor and other Republican leaders attributed the April drop to federal tax changes. Democrats called that claim ridiculous and said the revenue numbers showed the governor’s tax cuts are unsustainable.
But maybe Kansas isn't the only state experiencing the problem. Maybe it's the whole region.
https://www.moodys.com/...
The downgrade reflects Kansas' relatively sluggish recovery compared with its peers, the use of non-recurring measures to balance the budget, revenue reductions (resulting from tax cuts) which have not been fully offset by recurring spending cuts, and an underfunded retirement system for which the state is not making actuarially required contributions.
In recent years the state has appropriated funds from or shifted costs to the State Highway Fund to help balance the general fund budget. The phasing in of increasing income tax cuts, along with rising pension costs, will continue to exert pressure on the budget.
Whoops. Kansas job revenue market grew at a slower rate then nearby states (like Missouri) and Kansas revenue estimates led to Moodys downgrading state bonds, increasing the cost to borrow.
Despite the analysis from outside agencies that other states are performing significantly better than Kansas in equal economic situations and that Kansas tax policy led to the downgrade of Kansas Debt, Governor Brownback issued this statement today:
“What we are seeing today is the effect of tax increases implemented by the Obama administration that resulted in lower income tax payments and a depressed business environment,” Gov. Sam Brownback said in a statement.
Apparently, Obama's policies just want to hurt Kansas more than ... anywhere else
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...a?detail=email
And I bet Kansans are just stupid enough to believe Brownback's "blame Obama"
kansas is the breadbasket of america and here you are laughing at them
bread is ty food, KS can go itself.
speaking of KS
Koch-Funded Groups Continue Their Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to weaken Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an effort led by corporate-backed, pro-fossil fuel groups that have fought to kill renewable energy laws around the country. If this sounds like déjà vu, that’s because it is.
On Friday, the Kansas House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would weaken the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which requires that utility companies get 20 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020, the Wichita Eagle reported. The bill would keep the current 10 percent requirement and allow the requirement to increase as scheduled to 15 percent in 2016. However, the RPS would sunset in 2021 instead of increasing to 20 percent as scheduled.
In March, a bipartisan group of Kansas state representatives rejected an RPS repeal bill that the Senate approved.
And in 2013, both the Kansas Senate and House rejected legislative efforts to roll back and delay the RPS.
Repeal and weakening efforts over the years have been backed by powerful interests, including the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — all of which are funded by petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Furthermore, the ALEC connections to Kansas politicians are strong. Both the Kansas state Senate’s president, Susan Wagle (R), and the speaker of the state House, Ray Merrick (R), are members of the ALEC board. And, 46 other Kansas elected officials have ALEC ties.
This year, AFP also launched a media blitz in Kansas, running TV and radio ads that attempted to tie the renewable energy standard to former governor Kathleen Sebelius, despite the fact that it was signed into law by her successor. The ads also attribute electricity rate hikes to the standards, which prompted former Senate President Dave Kerr, (R) to call them “provably false.”
The Lawrence Journal-World notes that “a report by the Kansas Corporation Commission shows that the impact of the renewable energy standards is about one-fifth of one cent of the average 9.9 cents per kilowatt hour electricity cost.”
It’s not a surprise Koch-funded groups continue to attack the successful and popular Kansas RPS law. Both Charles and David Koch are Kansas natives, and the state is home to Koch Industries, the brothers’ Wichita-based energy conglomerate.
As the Kansas legislature prepares for its latest vote to weaken the state’s clean energy law, ALEC is holding its spring Task Force Summit in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday. The task force’s gathering at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown will discuss the drafting of new legislation for state lawmakers across the country.
Last year, the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force adopted the “Electricity Freedom Act” that gave guidance to state legislators for repealing or weakening RPS laws. The task force has also adopted model legislation that attacks net metering policies and the forthcoming EPA greenhouse gas emission standards for existing power plants.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...-clean-energy/
the VRWC doesn't exist!
Now compare Kansas' budget situation to that of California, a state that actually raised taxes.
The VRWC was detailed in a Clinton WH memo that talked about how fringe net sites were picked up by right leaning pubs like the Wash and NY Post and that was how stupid got into the national press.speaking of KS
Koch-Funded Groups Continue Their Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to weaken Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an effort led by corporate-backed, pro-fossil fuel groups that have fought to kill renewable energy laws around the country. If this sounds like déjà vu, that’s because it is.
On Friday, the Kansas House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would weaken the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which requires that utility companies get 20 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020, the Wichita Eagle reported. The bill would keep the current 10 percent requirement and allow the requirement to increase as scheduled to 15 percent in 2016. However, the RPS would sunset in 2021 instead of increasing to 20 percent as scheduled.
In March, a bipartisan group of Kansas state representatives rejected an RPS repeal bill that the Senate approved.
And in 2013, both the Kansas Senate and House rejected legislative efforts to roll back and delay the RPS.
Repeal and weakening efforts over the years have been backed by powerful interests, including the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — all of which are funded by petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Furthermore, the ALEC connections to Kansas politicians are strong. Both the Kansas state Senate’s president, Susan Wagle (R), and the speaker of the state House, Ray Merrick (R), are members of the ALEC board. And, 46 other Kansas elected officials have ALEC ties.
This year, AFP also launched a media blitz in Kansas, running TV and radio ads that attempted to tie the renewable energy standard to former governor Kathleen Sebelius, despite the fact that it was signed into law by her successor. The ads also attribute electricity rate hikes to the standards, which prompted former Senate President Dave Kerr, (R) to call them “provably false.”
The Lawrence Journal-World notes that “a report by the Kansas Corporation Commission shows that the impact of the renewable energy standards is about one-fifth of one cent of the average 9.9 cents per kilowatt hour electricity cost.”
It’s not a surprise Koch-funded groups continue to attack the successful and popular Kansas RPS law. Both Charles and David Koch are Kansas natives, and the state is home to Koch Industries, the brothers’ Wichita-based energy conglomerate.
As the Kansas legislature prepares for its latest vote to weaken the state’s clean energy law, ALEC is holding its spring Task Force Summit in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday. The task force’s gathering at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown will discuss the drafting of new legislation for state lawmakers across the country.
Last year, the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force adopted the “Electricity Freedom Act” that gave guidance to state legislators for repealing or weakening RPS laws. The task force has also adopted model legislation that attacks net metering policies and the forthcoming EPA greenhouse gas emission standards for existing power plants.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...-clean-energy/
the VRWC doesn't exist!
What you are talking about is dark money and its not the same thing. Frankly when you can name the conspirators then it stops being a conspiracy and every time you use the label pretty much every that reads you thinks you are an idiot. boutons likes to masturbate because he is the only one getting off to his takes.
CA balanced their budget and Jerry Brown has been applauded for it.
The pension situation in California still looms. That economy is going to have to keep up its steam for quite a while.
Exactly.
The above is true for the entire country.
"you can name the conspirators then it stops being a conspiracy"
bull . finding how who is in the conspiracy doesn't stop the conspiracy.
Fuzzy Brains is butt hurt because he can't touch The Great Boutons.
So now you're referring to yourself in the 3rd person?
lol @ now
You don't argue my points you just focus on minutiae and masturbate some more. Generally speaking a conspiracy is supposed to be secret. The Koch brothers are not secret.
Further I will extend my previous argument that Clinton WH legal counsel came up with the term VRWC back in the 90s around the cottage industry that was forming on the early web. It had nothing to do with big time political donors.
you had points?
yes, the first time I heard VRWC was from Hillary Clinton in 92 or after, in response to the non-stop slandering, witch hunting, harassing by the Repugs and their paymasters (Mellon Scaif PAID Paula's legal expsenes) of both Clintions from the first election and until SCOTUS defeated Gore.
I thought VRWC was weird idea, but I now, obviously, I fully agree with her.
The VRWC got going 20 years before she used the term in public. Check out the creation dates for Heritage, Cato, ALEC, etc VRWC stink tanks.
Then they sabotaged Carter by doing a deal, October surprise, with Iranians NOT to release the hostages which would have made Carter look good right before the 1980 Pres election, which put VRWC's useful idiot into the WH.
And a TX murderer of Mexicans changed the strategy of the NRA a few years later into an extreme right-wing political machine.
Now it is red herring time. Doubling down on your stupidity does not make the fact of the WH memo detailing the VRWC go away. YOu are willfully stupid as WC.
Here is the do ent in question: http://s3.do entcloud.org/do ent...conspiracy.pdf and it talks about a specific mechanism not your vague all encompassing bull .
Here is the author talking about it in todays context describing how the mechanics are used today.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...059_Page2.html
To repeat for your for brains, the VRWC existed 20+ years before Lehane's memo which didn't create anything but a label for the well-coordinated, very well-financed extreme conservative movement, strategy to bust unions, remove regulation, emasculate govt, privatize govt, transfer taxpayer wealth to the VRWC, deny govt as a source of power to do anything, reverse the progressive advances of the 1930s and 1930s, subvert democracy, disenfranchise voters by corrupting govt at all levels so the govt becomes a tool of the VRWC, serving (enriching, empowering) the VRWC above all. All that has happened, or is happening, and will continue to happen, and it's not by accident.
Your version of the VRWC is Marxist ideology. You have coopted the phrase but the ones you rail against are the same renters and capitalists that Marx talked about. It is not a conspiracy it is a well discussed socioeconomic reality. It's just irritating you use the verbage from a Clinton memo for your bull .
Marx' and similar socioeconomic analyses like Piketty are correct. Your "not a conspiracy it is a well discussed socioeconomic reality" is pure bull .
VRWC is becoming, in USA, a somewhat discussed phenomenon, but most American are so disengaged socially and politically, are sufficiently distracted by a certain level of physical comfort and media/political bull , that they don't GAFF.
The 1% have ALWAYS and will continue to organize their societies to suck the wealth of and oppress the 99%. The ONLY countervailing power is govt, which is why the 1% MUST emasculate, minimize, drown-in-a-bathtub govt.
What I am writing is for others benefit as much as yours.
1%, VRWC, renter, bourgeois. Your ideology and approach are obvious and should be contrasted with what is being discussed in the media.
Your supposed conspiracy is not the same as the one the democrats or the press has been talking about the last 20 years.
"1%, VRWC, renter, bourgeois."
it's "rentier (capitalism), not renter
"Your ideology and approach are obvious"
Obviously, not to you, my confused little half-brainer.
"should be contrasted with what is being discussed in the media."
.. as if the "media" discussed WTF is has been going on in USA since the 1970s.
"Your supposed conspiracy is not the same as the one the democrats or the press has been talking about the last 20 years"
what, in your befuddled opinion, have the "democrats or press" been talking about?
btw, Fuzzy Brain
the VRWC from the early 90s IS the VRWC of today and since the 1970s, and is exactly the same the Mrax, Piketty have illuminated.
As we see with the Repug witch hunting of the Clintons for 9+ years, and the 100% obstructionism of the Repugs since 2009, the profoundly anti-Cons utional, anti-democratic VRWC/Repugs DENY THE LEGITIMACY of any and all opposition, be it another political party or govt itself. iow, theirs is not "(democtratic) politics as usual", it's smash-mouth destruction of all countervailing opposition.
It's objective is to be the sole source of power in America, an authoritarian oligarchy which has allied itself with the authoritarian Christian supremacists, who in parallel, deny the legitimacy of any non-Protestant Christians (I know a few who despise Catholics as false Christians).
Insulting my intelligence without basis is typical but not very compelling. Makes you seem weak in your position frankly.
Rentier is a french word, jackass. I speak English. Its also not 'capitalism.' A renter is one that charges usage fees and contribute nothing themselves in the Marxist paradigm. I chose my words intentionally and I speak in English.
I just linked two media sources. You should be able to figure it out. If not, I don't care.
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