Seeded With Tax Cuts, Kansas Harvests the Benefits

[tlongII]

I hear black people shoot each other there.

.... even with gun control, the horrors!

Trash was gonna send Feds to help the corrupt Chicago police, but of course, just another lie

Relevance?

[Pavlov]

Relevance?

This post is ironic.

[RandomGuy]

Or California.

You mean the state with the balanced budget?

Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers could have a net budget windfall of some $7.5 billion by the summer of 2019 under a new analysis... released Wednesday by the independent Legislative Analyst's Office

http://www.latimes.com/politics/esse...htmlstory.html

[boutons_deux]

You mean the state with the balanced budget?



http://www.latimes.com/politics/esse...htmlstory.html

and CA's "high tax" "high cost" state is doing a of a lot better than any low-tax, low-cost red ing state.

And millionaires didn't flee CA when CA raised taxes a couple years ago to address its deficit.

[RandomGuy]

At least they aren’t Illinois.

ah, the whataboutism defense.

This Soviet propaganda technique seems to, for some strange reason, be all in vogue for conservatives in the US. When faced with solid criticism of how ty some Republican, or favored Republican policy is, fall back on the "what about..."

Republican tax policy is an indefensible, clear disaster. If it were otherwise, you could easily say why. You can't, and have obviously stopped trying.

I accept your surrender.

[RandomGuy]

and CA's "high tax" "high cost" state is doing a of a lot better than any low-tax, low-cost red ing state.

And millionaires didn't flee CA when CA raised taxes a couple years ago to address its deficit.

CA has raised taxes on the wealthy, and looks to benefit from that, and reverse a long trend of under-investment. I guess we will get to see what Democratic ideas for managing a government actually do.

[spurraider21]

aren't you glad john oliver popularized that term and told you about its soviet origins all so you can find a new angle to pimp the russia stuff?

[boutons_deux]

CA has raised taxes on the wealthy, and looks to benefit from that, and reverse a long trend of under-investment. I guess we will get to see what Democratic ideas for managing a government actually do.

CA does have an (affordable) housing crisis, much of that due to Banksters Great THIEVING Depression where Indy Mac, etc sold home owners a bunch of debt, like piggy backed home equity loans, then the creditors stole 4M+ homes forcing people into renting apts (apt rents are way up) and renting the homes owned by Capitalists rather than by homeowners.

[RandomGuy]

aren't you glad john oliver popularized that term and told you about its soviet origins all so you can find a new angle to pimp the russia stuff?

I was an intelligence analyst during the last of the Cold War. I am glad he reminded me of it though, yes.

I can see how it must be galling to have the leading figure in your preferred political party beholden to a hostile foreign power, and be constantly reminded of it. I don't really feel sorry for you though. You collectively made your bed. Have fun with the bugs.

[Chucho]

You mean the state with the balanced budget?



http://www.latimes.com/politics/esse...htmlstory.html

A balanced budget doesn't offset how awful he has been. We're still in the hole anywhere from $200-$700 billion, the state government gave themselves their annual raise that not a single citizen has a single word in that and we just got hit with a $52 billion gas tax and doubled registration fees to cover things our exorbitant state taxes should already cover. Moonbeam is getting his tunnels and speed train, come or highwater.

So, yeah, neat, balanced budget. But he is a bad, bad person running a bad Administration and while soooooo many in the working and lower classes are flat out struggling and borderline homeless, at least the state government is eating good.

I will give him this though- he is doing well in trying to fix the giant mess Schwarz did to the public school system here.

[Chucho]

No transparency. Turning the screws on SMB owners and the lower classes, little to no transparency. He's a bad Governor. And man, if he gets those Delta tunnels...oh man...

[spurraider21]

I was an intelligence analyst during the last of the Cold War. I am glad he reminded me of it though, yes.

I can see how it must be galling to have the leading figure in your preferred political party beholden to a hostile foreign power, and be constantly reminded of it. I don't really feel sorry for you though. You collectively made your bed. Have fun with the bugs.

come again?

[RandomGuy]

come again?

Happy to take it back if it is inaccurate.

Guessing I inferred too much by the "pimp Russia stuff" comment.

[spurraider21]

Happy to take it back if it is inaccurate.

Guessing I inferred too much by the "pimp Russia stuff" comment.

You act as though the application of whataboutism is indicative of support for Russia. That's an absurd leap.

[boutons_deux]

Trump administration stops short of approving the most restrictive Medicaid policy yet

Lifetime limits went too far this time.

The Trump administration just denied Kansas’ request to create an unprecedented “lifetime limit” on Medicaid, a federal insurance largely for the poor and disabled.

“We seek to create a pathway out of poverty,

but we also understand that people’s cir stances change, and we must ensure that our programs are sustainable and available to them when they need and qualify for them,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said during an American Hospital Association meeting on Monday.

Lifetime coverage limits cap access to coverage.

Had CMS approved Kansas’ request, Medicaid members would have been limited to a three-year lifetime limit.

Four other states (Arizona, Maine, Utah, and Wisconsin) also sought to implement lifetime caps for Medicaid.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-admi...-135306e36e84/

The oligarchy is relentless in its War on the Poor, which it is winning

[boutons_deux]

Kansas government didn’t tell Wichita-area residents their water was contaminated for 6 years

the Kansas government had knowledge of two neighborhoods in the Wichita-area that had contaminated water. However, they didn’t act for six or seven years.

According to The Wichita Eagle, hundreds of residents drank water that was

contaminated by a dry cleaning chemical known as perchloroethylene that had seeped into the groundwater.
The discovery was made in 2011 when investigating a possible expansion of a Kwik Shop, but

it took six years for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to inform the residents.

But, wells owned by private citizens less than a mile away weren’t tested.

For Joe Hufman, it was seven years before he learned his suburban well was contaminated by a Haysville dry cleaner.

“Haysville knew it.

KDHE knew it.

Kwik Shop knew it,” he told The Eagle.

His isn’t the only case, either.

Another dry cleaning site, near Central and Tyler in Wichita,

was contaminated and the

state didn’t notify residents of more than 200 homes for four years their drinking water had been impacted.

There are 22 contaminated sites across the state where private wells haven’t been checked,

so these two could be only the beginning.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/kan...e+Raw+Story%29

Repug MISgovernance, and y'all keep voting for them.

[RandomGuy]

Kansas government didn’t tell Wichita-area residents their water was contaminated for 6 years

the Kansas government had knowledge of two neighborhoods in the Wichita-area that had contaminated water. However, they didn’t act for six or seven years.

According to The Wichita Eagle, hundreds of residents drank water that was

contaminated by a dry cleaning chemical known as perchloroethylene that had seeped into the groundwater.
The discovery was made in 2011 when investigating a possible expansion of a Kwik Shop, but

it took six years for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to inform the residents.

But, wells owned by private citizens less than a mile away weren’t tested.

For Joe Hufman, it was seven years before he learned his suburban well was contaminated by a Haysville dry cleaner.

“Haysville knew it.

KDHE knew it.

Kwik Shop knew it,” he told The Eagle.

His isn’t the only case, either.

Another dry cleaning site, near Central and Tyler in Wichita,

was contaminated and the

state didn’t notify residents of more than 200 homes for four years their drinking water had been impacted.

There are 22 contaminated sites across the state where private wells haven’t been checked,

so these two could be only the beginning.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/kan...e+Raw+Story%29

Repug MISgovernance, and y'all keep voting for them.

Holee e.

This is the price for being "business friendly". That and fertilizer plant explosions.

Gotta have them jobs, never mind the cancer babies, and incinerated firefighters, amaright?

[Will Hunting]

this thread
ing Kansas voting for a Democratic governor because of how much of a disaster their tax cuts were
the magic of trickle down economics

[Splits]

tlongII

[RandomGuy]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/seeded-w...its-1431729743

Unemployment has dropped to 4.2% from 5.5% in 2013, and wages and job growth are steadily climbing.

Liberals love to hate Sam Brownback, and for good reason. The Kansas governor threatens a central tenet of liberal orthodoxy: the belief that higher taxes are a price that must be paid for progress.

“If your objective is to grow the economy, would you rather put more money into government, or leave it in the hands of small business?” Mr. Brownback asks during a recent interview in his office at the state capitol. Three years ago Kansas enacted the biggest tax cut of any state, relative to the size of its economy, in recent history. Lawmakers reduced the top rate on the personal income tax to 4.9% from 6.45%. They also eliminated the income tax for small business owners who file as individuals, a broad group that includes sole proprietors, limited liability partnerships and S-corporations.

The governor declared that Kansas was “open for business” in such strong terms that he might as well have donned a sandwich board reading “Come to Kansas / Keep Everything You Earn.” He boasted: “Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.”

The comment was subsequently picked up by critics who wondered why the Kansas economy wasn’t suddenly leaping ahead at, say, 4%-5% growth annually. When Mr. Brownback ran for re-election last year, national reporters descended on the Sunflower State and quickly made Kansas the national symbol for the alleged depredations of “trickle-down economics.” A sampling of headlines includes: “How Tea Party tax cuts are turning Kansas into a smoking ruin,” L.A. Times, July 9; “Kansas’ Ruinous Tax Cuts,” the New York Times, July 13; and “The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster,” Rolling Stone, Oct. 23.

Yet voters re-elected Mr. Brownback by a four-point margin. What the news coverage missed was that if Kansas hasn’t exactly catapulted into the front ranks in economic growth and employment, then it has at least moved a long way from the stagnation of recent decades. Consider:

• In March 2013, unemployment in Kansas stood at 5.5%. It has since dropped to 4.2%, tied for 14th lowest in the country.

• From 1998-2012, Kansas ranked 38th in private-sector job growth, according Bureau of Labor Statistics data crunched by the Kansas Policy Ins ute. In 2013—the first year after the tax reform—the state climbed to 27th place, and in 2014 it moved to 21st, placing it in the top half of states.

• In the second half of 2014, hourly wages in Kansas grew 3.5%, according to BLS data, far faster than the national average of 1.9%.

How is that trickle-down bullpiss working for you? Feeling the warmth of success yet?

[AaronY]

this thread
ing Kansas voting for a Democratic governor because of how much of a disaster their tax cuts were
the magic of trickle down economics

lmao forgot about this

if only the dems would get out of the way of the free market

[tlongII]

How is that trickle-down bullpiss working for you? Feeling the warmth of success yet?

Working great for me. How bout you?

[Spurminator]

this thread
ing Kansas voting for a Democratic governor because of how much of a disaster their tax cuts were
the magic of trickle down economics

[Pavlov]

Working great for me. How bout you?

You're in Kansas?

[Chucho]

Kansas- 11.9% below the poverty line. Awful state economy.

California- 21% below the poverty line. Best state economy. Massive surplus and massive taxes.

But, Kansas, right?

Doesn't matter who runs things and how things appear on paper. Proportionately, the biggest blue state with the most income and wealth of any state has twice the volume of impoverished people.