Gov. Sam Brownback, the man who’s absolutely destroyed his state’s economy with wingnut austerity and crazy trickledown policies, is still trying to make 0 + 0 = 10. Silly man!
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) will propose tax revenue increases in order to address the state’s budget shortfall, the Wichita Eagle reported on Saturday.
Brownback announced last month that he would initiate budget cuts to help fill the large budget deficit projected to reach $279 million by June 2015. Jon Hummel, the governor’s chief of staff, told the Eagle that the governor would specifically target the state’s education budget.
Brownback implemented steep income tax cuts during his first term in office, which prompted some state Republicans to back the Democratic candidate in the 2014 election.
Hummel said that the governor is still focused on limiting spending despite the proposal to increase tax revenue.
“Revenue didn’t come in quite as was projected,” he told the Eagle. “If we can do some things on the tax side and do some things on the budget side and still maintain that overall philosophy, then he’s always been open to that.”
There are two types of Republicans. Dumb ones who believe in the Capitalist economic ideology even though they have no idea what it is, and smart ones who believe in nothing except getting rich. The smart ones will lie, cheat, steal and even kill to accomplish that.
Trying to teach the dumb ones anything is a fools errand. The smart ones aren’t interested in learning anything except how to be a better criminal.
Why any Leftist would try to reason with such people is beyond comprehension.
Alas, the people of Kansas did reelect him. Amazing, but true.
When will they ever learn?
I think Brownback is just sucking up as hard as he can to the elites and Big Money. And those people do not want the competition of a well-educated proletariat: They want their offspring to have the pick of the jobs requiring good educations and will support those who want to destroy the American public education system. They’ve done yeoman’s work in making the great state universities almost too expensive for most students, so now they have to take down high schools and lower grades.
This will be the first Midwestern state to strip its government services down to Mississippi levels. The reaction I fear most is none at all!