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What's the Matter With Kansas? It's broke.

 
 
 
ksen said:
braces_for_impact said:
Well there's THIS.
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From the article:

“There’s definitely waste in the budget,” Senator Dennis Pyle, a Republican, said in an interview. “It’s my goal to not raise taxes. We have to let the private sector breathe and operate as freely as possible because that is the revenue driver.”
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So Senator Dennis Pyle, at least, thought that tax cuts would increase tax revenues.
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But did he specifically say that "tax cuts lead to higher revenue"?
 
No, and he didn't explicitly say "Kansas" either.

Dammit, and I was >< THIS close!!
 
Just give it time.
Arthur Laffer’s view on the Kansas economy: Prosperity awaits patient tax cutters | The Kansas City Star

In a 45-minute phone interview, Laffer said while he is “not surprised,” he didn’t know why the deficits have occurred. He still believes adamantly in his supply-side economic theory: If you reduce income taxes, you will raise more revenue, not less.
Just when the revenue starts to rise is another matter.
“You have to view this over 10 years,” Laffer said. “It will work in Kansas.”
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The check is in the mail.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
Nice Squirrel said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9e6696-0974-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html

He didn’t roll back his steep cuts to income and business taxes, instead proposing an increase in the sales tax from 6.15 percent to 6.65 percent.
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Of course. If you must tax, tax the little guy.
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The GOP isn't against taxes, they want to shift the burden of taxation from the wealthy to everyone else.

It isn't the left that is proposing the so-called "fair tax," a national sales tax of ~23% to replace the income tax, or the "flat tax," having everyone pay the same income tax rate, ignoring the fact that the poor already pay more of their income in taxes than the rich. Either one reduces the taxes paid for by the wealthy and increases the taxes on everyone else.
 
SimpleDon said:
Loren Pechtel said:
Nice Squirrel said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9e6696-0974-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html

He didn’t roll back his steep cuts to income and business taxes, instead proposing an increase in the sales tax from 6.15 percent to 6.65 percent.
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Of course. If you must tax, tax the little guy.
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The GOP isn't against taxes, they want to shift the burden of taxation from the wealthy to everyone else.
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They are against taxation. Taxation is what allows the Government to have influence.
 
And of course they increase the most regressive taxes.

Well done Kansas republicans.
 
Well you know, it is a well known FACT that rich people hire workers at good wages every time they have extra money from tax cuts because they can afford to do so. Those naysyaers who say business only hires people when they need workers are just dumb people who don't understand business.
 
Kansas also voted on a Flood tax, so that all floods would be taxed. Locals worry this will make all floods occur in other states now.
 
Nice Squirrel said:
dismal said:
If only there were no dastardly republicans preaching their evil austerity everywhere could be more like this:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/economy/puerto-rico-debt/index.html?section=money_news_economy
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Good catch because PR is exactly like KS. And "austerity" is equal to oil dependency.
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I'm glad you were able to seize on them most mind numbed bad-at-math journalist major apologetics in there, but it turns out scientists have discovered a fool proof way not to bankrupt your utility because you generate electricity from oil: charge at least as much for electricity as it costs to produce it.
 
dismal said:
Nice Squirrel said:
Good catch because PR is exactly like KS. And "austerity" is equal to oil dependency.
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I'm glad you were able to seize on them most mind numbed bad-at-math journalist major apologetics in there, but it turns out scientists have discovered a fool proof way not to bankrupt your utility because you generate electricity from oil: charge at least as much for electricity as it costs to produce it.
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And that is exactly what is happening in Kansas: Scientists are ruining the economy through austerity. Brilliant, pure brilliance.
 
dismal said:
If only there were no dastardly republicans preaching their evil austerity everywhere could be more like this:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/economy/puerto-rico-debt/index.html?section=money_news_economy
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Wow. So you think Brownback is trying to remove white racial social and governmental advantage by cutting taxes. If not, why do you select a place populated with nothing but blacks and browns for comparison. Thanks for that, probably unintended, little example BTW.
 
ksen said:
dismal said:
If only there were no dastardly republicans preaching their evil austerity everywhere could be more like this:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/economy/puerto-rico-debt/index.html?section=money_news_economy
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertw...tax-free-puerto-rico-stay-american-avoid-irs/

What do you mean? Puerto Rico has very low taxes. It shouldn't have any economic or fiscal woes.
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I would have thought massive deficit Keynesey-spending and subsidized electricity would have trumped the evil economy destroying low taxes but I guess not.

At least we were able to establish it's the evil Republicans fault.
 
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