GOP jobs agenda

[Billy000]

Lol the Rightwing on USMB gave it there best shot on this thread but as usual they can't argue with facts and basic critical thinking.

 

[bripat9643]

With Republicans taking over Congress today, prepare to be dazzled with their jobs agenda. It is what we have been waiting six years for

In the new Congress, Republicans will have the majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time in eight years. As they get ready to take power, their rhetorical focus is clear: jobs, the economy, and more jobs.
So far, there are two main proposals on deck for the GOP. First, the Hire More Heroes Act, which would make it easier for small businesses that hire veterans to deny health care to their employees. Second, they want to immediately build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On their own, these are both extremely small-bore policies. But as a jobs agenda, this doesn't even rise to the level of pitiful. It's the latest evidence that Republicans continue to struggle with basic macroeconomics — and it does not bode well for the nation should they win the White House in 2016.

Sorry Republicans The Keystone XL pipeline is not a jobs agenda - The Week

Those 'pitiful' efforts beat the hell out of anything the Democrats have offered for the last 6 years. BTW, is the Keystone XL pipeline going to build itself?

Democratic policies have generated 3 million jobs just this year

After complaining for six years about jobs, jobs jobs......The best the Republicans can come up with is Keystone and Hire more Heroes?

Pathetic....just pathetic

As I already explained, when liberals use the term "jobs agenda" they mean pork, crony capitalism, corporate welfare and Democrat reelection slush fund. If you knock those off the list, then Democrats have no "jobs agenda" either. There is simply no Democrat legislative proposal that would actually increase jobs.

 

[Billy000]

With Republicans taking over Congress today, prepare to be dazzled with their jobs agenda. It is what we have been waiting six years for

In the new Congress, Republicans will have the majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time in eight years. As they get ready to take power, their rhetorical focus is clear: jobs, the economy, and more jobs.
So far, there are two main proposals on deck for the GOP. First, the Hire More Heroes Act, which would make it easier for small businesses that hire veterans to deny health care to their employees. Second, they want to immediately build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On their own, these are both extremely small-bore policies. But as a jobs agenda, this doesn't even rise to the level of pitiful. It's the latest evidence that Republicans continue to struggle with basic macroeconomics — and it does not bode well for the nation should they win the White House in 2016.

Sorry Republicans The Keystone XL pipeline is not a jobs agenda - The Week

Those 'pitiful' efforts beat the hell out of anything the Democrats have offered for the last 6 years. BTW, is the Keystone XL pipeline going to build itself?

Democratic policies have generated 3 million jobs just this year

After complaining for six years about jobs, jobs jobs......The best the Republicans can come up with is Keystone and Hire more Heroes?

Pathetic....just pathetic

As I already explained, when liberals use the term "jobs agenda" they mean pork, crony capitalism, corporate welfare and Democrat reelection slush fund. If you knock those off the list, then Democrats have no "jobs agenda" either. There is simply no Democrat legislative proposal that would actually increase jobs.

According to the CBO, Obama's stimulus created 3 million private jobs. These are facts. I know you listen to the toddlers on Fox News, but eventually you need to accept reality.

 

[bripat9643]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

 

[Billy000]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

 

[bripat9643]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

 

[bripat9643]

With Republicans taking over Congress today, prepare to be dazzled with their jobs agenda. It is what we have been waiting six years for

In the new Congress, Republicans will have the majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time in eight years. As they get ready to take power, their rhetorical focus is clear: jobs, the economy, and more jobs.
So far, there are two main proposals on deck for the GOP. First, the Hire More Heroes Act, which would make it easier for small businesses that hire veterans to deny health care to their employees. Second, they want to immediately build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On their own, these are both extremely small-bore policies. But as a jobs agenda, this doesn't even rise to the level of pitiful. It's the latest evidence that Republicans continue to struggle with basic macroeconomics — and it does not bode well for the nation should they win the White House in 2016.

Sorry Republicans The Keystone XL pipeline is not a jobs agenda - The Week

Those 'pitiful' efforts beat the hell out of anything the Democrats have offered for the last 6 years. BTW, is the Keystone XL pipeline going to build itself?

Democratic policies have generated 3 million jobs just this year

After complaining for six years about jobs, jobs jobs......The best the Republicans can come up with is Keystone and Hire more Heroes?

Pathetic....just pathetic

As I already explained, when liberals use the term "jobs agenda" they mean pork, crony capitalism, corporate welfare and Democrat reelection slush fund. If you knock those off the list, then Democrats have no "jobs agenda" either. There is simply no Democrat legislative proposal that would actually increase jobs.

According to the CBO, Obama's stimulus created 3 million private jobs. These are facts. I know you listen to the toddlers on Fox News, but eventually you need to accept reality.

The CBO also said that Obamacare was revenue neutral, and we all know what a complete crock of shit that turned out to be.

 

[Dad2three]

With Republicans taking over Congress today, prepare to be dazzled with their jobs agenda. It is what we have been waiting six years for

In the new Congress, Republicans will have the majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time in eight years. As they get ready to take power, their rhetorical focus is clear: jobs, the economy, and more jobs.
So far, there are two main proposals on deck for the GOP. First, the Hire More Heroes Act, which would make it easier for small businesses that hire veterans to deny health care to their employees. Second, they want to immediately build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On their own, these are both extremely small-bore policies. But as a jobs agenda, this doesn't even rise to the level of pitiful. It's the latest evidence that Republicans continue to struggle with basic macroeconomics — and it does not bode well for the nation should they win the White House in 2016.

Sorry Republicans The Keystone XL pipeline is not a jobs agenda - The Week

Those 'pitiful' efforts beat the hell out of anything the Democrats have offered for the last 6 years. BTW, is the Keystone XL pipeline going to build itself?

Democratic policies have generated 3 million jobs just this year

After complaining for six years about jobs, jobs jobs......The best the Republicans can come up with is Keystone and Hire more Heroes?

Pathetic....just pathetic

As I already explained, when liberals use the term "jobs agenda" they mean pork, crony capitalism, corporate welfare and Democrat reelection slush fund. If you knock those off the list, then Democrats have no "jobs agenda" either. There is simply no Democrat legislative proposal that would actually increase jobs.

Study: Economy grows faster under Democratic presidents than Republicans

Study Economy grows faster under Democratic presidents than Republicans - CBS News

 

[Dad2three]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

Weird, NOW it's cut taxes AND Gov't in order for the 'job creators' to do their thing? lol

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories
California raised taxes, Kansas cut them. California did better


Ever since economist Arthur Laffer drew his namesake curve on a napkin for two officials in President Richard Nixon’s administration four decades ago, we have been told that cutting tax rates spurs jobs and higher pay, while hiking taxes does the opposite.

Now, thanks to recent tax cuts in Kansas and tax hikes in California, we have real-world tests of this idea. So far, the results do not support Laffer’s insistence that lower tax rates always result in more and better-paying jobs. In fact, Kansas’ tax cuts produced much slower job and wage growth than in California.

The empirical evidence that the Laffer curve is not what its promoter insists joins other real-world experience undermining the widely held belief that minimum wage increases reduce employment and income.

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories Al Jazeera America

 

[bripat9643]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

Weird, NOW it's cut taxes AND Gov't in order for the 'job creators' to do their thing? lol

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories
California raised taxes, Kansas cut them. California did better


Ever since economist Arthur Laffer drew his namesake curve on a napkin for two officials in President Richard Nixon’s administration four decades ago, we have been told that cutting tax rates spurs jobs and higher pay, while hiking taxes does the opposite.

Now, thanks to recent tax cuts in Kansas and tax hikes in California, we have real-world tests of this idea. So far, the results do not support Laffer’s insistence that lower tax rates always result in more and better-paying jobs. In fact, Kansas’ tax cuts produced much slower job and wage growth than in California.

The empirical evidence that the Laffer curve is not what its promoter insists joins other real-world experience undermining the widely held belief that minimum wage increases reduce employment and income.

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories Al Jazeera America

You obviously have me confused with someone who said tax cuts alone would boost the economy.

BTW, I'm not interested in responding to your spam.

 

[Dad2three]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

Kansas Governor’s Grand Tax Cut Experiment Is Gutting His State’s Services

After revenues came in more than $300 million below projections in FY2014, the July and August figures were a welcome turnaround. But a third of the way into the budget year, Brownback’s administration now has about $40 million less to work with than it had predicted for FY2015.



...The student population has grown by 19,000 but the number of teachers in the state has fallen by 665 since 2009, according to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth. Local education officials around the state told the group that they anticipate further staffing cuts, class size increases, and per-pupil resource reductions in the coming years. On top of the layoffs, schools have had to slash funding for professional development programs that keep teachers current on how to be most effective at preparing their kids. The average district in Kansas will spend $41,500 less on teacher training in 2015 than it did in 2009, the group reports.


..One key piece of Brownback’s tax package was the complete elimination of taxes on a certain category of business income, a tax break intended to benefit small businesses but which is easily exploited by savvy taxpayers and large businesses. The governor billed the cuts as a shortcut to economic prosperity, but Kansas is creating jobs at a significantly slower clip than its neighboring states and the nation as a whole.

 

[Nutz]

With Republicans taking over Congress today, prepare to be dazzled with their jobs agenda. It is what we have been waiting six years for

In the new Congress, Republicans will have the majority in both the Senate and the House for the first time in eight years. As they get ready to take power, their rhetorical focus is clear: jobs, the economy, and more jobs.
So far, there are two main proposals on deck for the GOP. First, the Hire More Heroes Act, which would make it easier for small businesses that hire veterans to deny health care to their employees. Second, they want to immediately build the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
On their own, these are both extremely small-bore policies. But as a jobs agenda, this doesn't even rise to the level of pitiful. It's the latest evidence that Republicans continue to struggle with basic macroeconomics — and it does not bode well for the nation should they win the White House in 2016.

Sorry Republicans The Keystone XL pipeline is not a jobs agenda - The Week

We have to handle some internal issues right now. Wait until we handle the tea party and see what happens when we - minus the teaper infection - take over for real in 2017.

 

[Nutz]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

Kansas Governor’s Grand Tax Cut Experiment Is Gutting His State’s Services

After revenues came in more than $300 million below projections in FY2014, the July and August figures were a welcome turnaround. But a third of the way into the budget year, Brownback’s administration now has about $40 million less to work with than it had predicted for FY2015.



...The student population has grown by 19,000 but the number of teachers in the state has fallen by 665 since 2009, according to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth. Local education officials around the state told the group that they anticipate further staffing cuts, class size increases, and per-pupil resource reductions in the coming years. On top of the layoffs, schools have had to slash funding for professional development programs that keep teachers current on how to be most effective at preparing their kids. The average district in Kansas will spend $41,500 less on teacher training in 2015 than it did in 2009, the group reports.


..One key piece of Brownback’s tax package was the complete elimination of taxes on a certain category of business income, a tax break intended to benefit small businesses but which is easily exploited by savvy taxpayers and large businesses. The governor billed the cuts as a shortcut to economic prosperity, but Kansas is creating jobs at a significantly slower clip than its neighboring states and the nation as a whole.

They should learn to work with less.

 

[Dad2three]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

Weird, NOW it's cut taxes AND Gov't in order for the 'job creators' to do their thing? lol

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories
California raised taxes, Kansas cut them. California did better


Ever since economist Arthur Laffer drew his namesake curve on a napkin for two officials in President Richard Nixon’s administration four decades ago, we have been told that cutting tax rates spurs jobs and higher pay, while hiking taxes does the opposite.

Now, thanks to recent tax cuts in Kansas and tax hikes in California, we have real-world tests of this idea. So far, the results do not support Laffer’s insistence that lower tax rates always result in more and better-paying jobs. In fact, Kansas’ tax cuts produced much slower job and wage growth than in California.

The empirical evidence that the Laffer curve is not what its promoter insists joins other real-world experience undermining the widely held belief that minimum wage increases reduce employment and income.

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories Al Jazeera America

You obviously have me confused with someone who said tax cuts alone would boost the economy.

BTW, I'm not interested in responding to your spam.

Good you agree, tax cuts have a VERY small stimulative effect, especially to Corps and 'job creators'


Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says he must take “corrective action” to close a projected $280 million budget hole created by his income-tax cuts and plans to reduce spending on pensions and highways.

....The budget moves, which include diverting almost $100 million from highway funds and cutting the contribution to the public employees’ retirement system by $41 million, followed claims of the governor’s opponents that tax cuts approved in 2012 would result in deep spending reductions.

Brownback to Cut Pensions Roads to Close Kansas Budget Deficit - Bloomberg

 

[Vandalshandle]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

You can't make stuff like this up, folks! See it here on this very thread!

 

[Nutz]

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

Weird, NOW it's cut taxes AND Gov't in order for the 'job creators' to do their thing? lol

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories
California raised taxes, Kansas cut them. California did better


Ever since economist Arthur Laffer drew his namesake curve on a napkin for two officials in President Richard Nixon’s administration four decades ago, we have been told that cutting tax rates spurs jobs and higher pay, while hiking taxes does the opposite.

Now, thanks to recent tax cuts in Kansas and tax hikes in California, we have real-world tests of this idea. So far, the results do not support Laffer’s insistence that lower tax rates always result in more and better-paying jobs. In fact, Kansas’ tax cuts produced much slower job and wage growth than in California.

The empirical evidence that the Laffer curve is not what its promoter insists joins other real-world experience undermining the widely held belief that minimum wage increases reduce employment and income.

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories Al Jazeera America

You obviously have me confused with someone who said tax cuts alone would boost the economy.

BTW, I'm not interested in responding to your spam.

Good you agree, tax cuts have a VERY small stimulative effect, especially to Corps and 'job creators'

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says he must take “corrective action” to close a projected $280 million budget hole created by his income-tax cuts and plans to reduce spending on pensions and highways.

....The budget moves, which include diverting almost $100 million from highway funds and cutting the contribution to the public employees’ retirement system by $41 million, followed claims of the governor’s opponents that tax cuts approved in 2012 would result in deep spending reductions.

Brownback to Cut Pensions Roads to Close Kansas Budget Deficit - Bloomberg

What I believe is that government agencies can learn to work with less. There is always waste that can be trimmed. We do it as families all of the time.

 

[Dad2three]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

Kansas Governor’s Grand Tax Cut Experiment Is Gutting His State’s Services

After revenues came in more than $300 million below projections in FY2014, the July and August figures were a welcome turnaround. But a third of the way into the budget year, Brownback’s administration now has about $40 million less to work with than it had predicted for FY2015.



...The student population has grown by 19,000 but the number of teachers in the state has fallen by 665 since 2009, according to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth. Local education officials around the state told the group that they anticipate further staffing cuts, class size increases, and per-pupil resource reductions in the coming years. On top of the layoffs, schools have had to slash funding for professional development programs that keep teachers current on how to be most effective at preparing their kids. The average district in Kansas will spend $41,500 less on teacher training in 2015 than it did in 2009, the group reports.


..One key piece of Brownback’s tax package was the complete elimination of taxes on a certain category of business income, a tax break intended to benefit small businesses but which is easily exploited by savvy taxpayers and large businesses. The governor billed the cuts as a shortcut to economic prosperity, but Kansas is creating jobs at a significantly slower clip than its neighboring states and the nation as a whole.

They should learn to work with less.

THAT wasn't the promise of the GOP/Brownback though right? They said tax cuts, especially Corp ones, would bring more jobs AND more revenues??? LOL

 

[Vandalshandle]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

Kansas Governor’s Grand Tax Cut Experiment Is Gutting His State’s Services

After revenues came in more than $300 million below projections in FY2014, the July and August figures were a welcome turnaround. But a third of the way into the budget year, Brownback’s administration now has about $40 million less to work with than it had predicted for FY2015.



...The student population has grown by 19,000 but the number of teachers in the state has fallen by 665 since 2009, according to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth. Local education officials around the state told the group that they anticipate further staffing cuts, class size increases, and per-pupil resource reductions in the coming years. On top of the layoffs, schools have had to slash funding for professional development programs that keep teachers current on how to be most effective at preparing their kids. The average district in Kansas will spend $41,500 less on teacher training in 2015 than it did in 2009, the group reports.


..One key piece of Brownback’s tax package was the complete elimination of taxes on a certain category of business income, a tax break intended to benefit small businesses but which is easily exploited by savvy taxpayers and large businesses. The governor billed the cuts as a shortcut to economic prosperity, but Kansas is creating jobs at a significantly slower clip than its neighboring states and the nation as a whole.

They should learn to work with less.

THAT wasn't the promise of the GOP/Brownback though right? They said tax cuts, especially Corp ones, would bring more jobs AND more revenues??? LOL

Well, I guess it is possible. I saw Siegfried and Roy disappear an elephant on stage in Las Vegas.....

 

[Nutz]

Why not follow Kansas jobs plan? You cut taxes (in the name of the wealthy) and whamo you have a major deficit. Then you cut everything you can so nothing resembles anything workable and you are billions in the hole. So what do you do to close the gap? Cut taxes again of course. The jobs come pouring in alright. In the surrounding states. Who in their right mind would go to a state ewith lousy education and a low standard of living? Answer? Nobody.

Aside from taxes, what have they cut? The fact is they haven't cut a thing. IF nothing works, it isn't the fault of the tax cut.

Kansas Governor’s Grand Tax Cut Experiment Is Gutting His State’s Services

After revenues came in more than $300 million below projections in FY2014, the July and August figures were a welcome turnaround. But a third of the way into the budget year, Brownback’s administration now has about $40 million less to work with than it had predicted for FY2015.



...The student population has grown by 19,000 but the number of teachers in the state has fallen by 665 since 2009, according to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth. Local education officials around the state told the group that they anticipate further staffing cuts, class size increases, and per-pupil resource reductions in the coming years. On top of the layoffs, schools have had to slash funding for professional development programs that keep teachers current on how to be most effective at preparing their kids. The average district in Kansas will spend $41,500 less on teacher training in 2015 than it did in 2009, the group reports.


..One key piece of Brownback’s tax package was the complete elimination of taxes on a certain category of business income, a tax break intended to benefit small businesses but which is easily exploited by savvy taxpayers and large businesses. The governor billed the cuts as a shortcut to economic prosperity, but Kansas is creating jobs at a significantly slower clip than its neighboring states and the nation as a whole.

They should learn to work with less.

THAT wasn't the promise of the GOP/Brownback though right? They said tax cuts, especially Corp ones, would bring more jobs AND more revenues??? LOL

I was simply stating that budgets can be cut making government workers work with less. I made no comment on taxes.

I believe tax breaks for companies should be incentive based - but I also believe you are not being totally honest with your argument...clearly the problem was incompetent law writing that allowed loopholes. Let them fix the loopholes and give it an honest chance.

 

[Dad2three]

How can you be so dumb to not understand that cutting revenue creates deficits? It doesn't get more simple than that.

Where did I say cutting revenue doesn't create deficits? However, cutting taxes and cutting government at the same time will promote job growth. That isn't what Kansas did.

Weird, NOW it's cut taxes AND Gov't in order for the 'job creators' to do their thing? lol

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories
California raised taxes, Kansas cut them. California did better


Ever since economist Arthur Laffer drew his namesake curve on a napkin for two officials in President Richard Nixon’s administration four decades ago, we have been told that cutting tax rates spurs jobs and higher pay, while hiking taxes does the opposite.

Now, thanks to recent tax cuts in Kansas and tax hikes in California, we have real-world tests of this idea. So far, the results do not support Laffer’s insistence that lower tax rates always result in more and better-paying jobs. In fact, Kansas’ tax cuts produced much slower job and wage growth than in California.

The empirical evidence that the Laffer curve is not what its promoter insists joins other real-world experience undermining the widely held belief that minimum wage increases reduce employment and income.

Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories Al Jazeera America

You obviously have me confused with someone who said tax cuts alone would boost the economy.

BTW, I'm not interested in responding to your spam.

Good you agree, tax cuts have a VERY small stimulative effect, especially to Corps and 'job creators'

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says he must take “corrective action” to close a projected $280 million budget hole created by his income-tax cuts and plans to reduce spending on pensions and highways.

....The budget moves, which include diverting almost $100 million from highway funds and cutting the contribution to the public employees’ retirement system by $41 million, followed claims of the governor’s opponents that tax cuts approved in 2012 would result in deep spending reductions.

Brownback to Cut Pensions Roads to Close Kansas Budget Deficit - Bloomberg

What I believe is that government agencies can learn to work with less. There is always waste that can be trimmed. We do it as families all of the time.

ANOTHER con who wants to conflate Gov't with a family budget *shaking head*


WORK WITH LESS? Is THAT what the GOP/Brownback said would happen? Or did they say, conservative theory, that tax cuts would create more jobs AND more revenues??? lol

Waste? Yeah, plenty of cons I'm sure are in Kansas

HONESTY. Try it