Dale Smith
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OMG, cut spending!? Every state university must have a Director of Lesbian Diversity making 6 figures!TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — "After he became Kansas governor in 2011, Sam Brownback slashed personal income taxes on the promise that the deep cuts would trigger a furious wave of hiring and expansion by businesses.
"But the "shot of adrenaline" hasn't worked as envisioned, and the state budget has been in crisis ever since. Now many of the same Republicans who helped pass Brownback's plan are in open revolt, refusing to help the governor cut spending so he can avoid rolling back any of his signature tax
measures"
In Kansas, lawmakers lose patience with governor's tax cuts
Let's take our country back, start with the Senate and the H. of Rep.
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Example of an Idiot-Gram ^^^ posted by an apparent homophobic bigot who believes s/he is clever.
Now that we've proved the why of the Idiot-Gram, let's consider the issue, cutting spending.
Q. What happens when taxes are cut and spending is reduced:
A. Personnel are cut
A. Unemployment increases
A. Spending for discretionary items slows
A. retail establishments lay off staff
A. Sales tax diminishes
A. The economy stalls
A. American becomes Kansas
Q. Who benefits from tax cuts
A. The higher earners
Q. Who are harmed by tax cuts
A. The poor, working poor and workers earning below the state or nations mean earnings
Q. Then what happens
A. More needs by government to provide food, clothing and shelter for those in need
A. Greater burdens on all Social Services
A. More homeless
Cutting spending needs to be done by responsible legislators who understand that cost-benefits and cost-deficits need to be identified; the movement toward fiscal conservatism has been based mostly on emotion, fear mongering and a complete disregard for consequences, known and unknown.
That's odd....according the CAFR report...buried deep in the report is a stat sheet showing that just the state "gubermint" alone is sitting on 8 billion dollars after expenditures and that doesn't even include the investments of their counties and states. Sounds like the corporate gubermints need to loosen the tight fist of commerce and liquidate some of their holdings instead of coming to the citizens......ya think??