Things continue to go swimmingly in The Sunflower State. We should all follow their lead.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/05/usa-kansas-furloughs-idUSL1N0YR2CV20150605
are you asking why and/or how Kansas has a culture that embraces such go-get-'em, self-supporting, and generally good old American policies?
Because I wonder that, too. I’ve long thought of leaving my liberal scumhole state for greener pastures.
or are you asking why certain elites can’t understand how people could prefer a lower tax government with less services.
THAT doesn’t surprise me. The entire political left is dying and freaking out like the right in the 50’s, and they’re being exposed for the elitist fascists they’ve always been.
That’s interesting, coming from the guy who insisted on comparing Illinois to neighboring states:
Essentially, your argument boils down to “tax-cutting Republican governors are awesome,” and you’re willing to cherry-pick statistics as needed to support the idea that tax-cutting Republican governors are awesome.
“The affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many (Adam Smith, 1776).”
No, we’re wondering why they cling to those policies even when they work out so badly for everybody as they have in Kansas.
… this is satire, right?
Its like John Galt doing stand-up comedy.
Who?
Ayn Rand in drag.
The answer is more tax cuts. What’s the question again?
I’m sure Paul Krugman is smart enough to understand the economic effects of having a few extra dollars to spend for an individual family.
What Krugman understands that the average ordinary voter doesn’t understand is the effect on the overall economy of these policies. Many of these effects are counter-intuitive to the ordinary person not formally educated in economics.
How much does Kansas receive in government farms subsidies?
Oh.
umm, whoosh
Well, you made me curious, so I went looking.
According to this site: EWG Farm Subsidy Database || Kansas Conservation Database , between 1995 and 2012 Kansas recieved:
$9.38B in Commodity Subsidies
$3.45B in Crop Insurance Subsidies
$2.37B in Conservation Subsidies
$1.14B in Disaster Subsidies
Total about $16.4 Billion dollars in Government subsidies.
Also worth noting: The top ten percent of all farms collected 70% of the subsidies, while 32% of Kansas farms got no subsidies.
I’ll let other folks draw conclusions as they will.
A lot. It’s worth noting that all the states ahead of it on the list except Nebraska have larger populations, though on a per-capita basis Kansas gets less than Iowa.
To trickle your funny bone.
Not you.
That seems like a lot of handouts for a “culture that embraces such go-get-'em, self-supporting, and generally good old American policies”.
After a nearly 4-month struggle, the Kansas lege has arrived at a budget agreement, which the governor will probably sign.
*The two bills together would raise $384 million during the fiscal year that begins July 1. Even with the new revenues, Republicans who drafted the plan said Brownback might have to cut up to $50 million in spending.
One measure raises the state’s sales tax to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent. The House approved it early Friday, 63-44, and the Senate passed it Friday afternoon, 21-19.
“I congratulate them on coming together in a spirit of cooperation and compromise to do what is right for Kansas,” Brownback said in a statement issued after the vote.
The other measure was approved Sunday by the Senate and includes an increase in the cigarette tax of 50 cents a pack, to $1.29. It also includes a modest increase in taxes for business owners and farmers, at a level Brownback would accept, rather than a more aggressive proposal sought by some GOP lawmakers.*
Which may be problematic WRT, oh, the Laffer curve. If you raise register-level taxes, you throttle spending by raising prices, which ends up risking not only lower than expected revenue but also economic stagnation. I mean, hey, if it works at the top margin, it probably also works at the bottom. Perhaps even moreso.
The Shit always rolls downhill but it settles at the bottom.
This means that Kansas now has one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation.
I really wish that ITR champion would come back here to the discussion.