You have to feel some sympathy for the people of Kansas. They are so screwed. Their leaders created the perfect Republican state, one in which they provided tax breaks for the wealthy and repealed taxes for 100,000 businesses. In addition:
They tightened welfare requirements, privatized the delivery of Medicaid, cut $200 million from the education budget, eliminated four state agencies and 2,000 government employees.
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after signing the largest tax cut in Kansas history, Brownback told the Wall Street Journal, “My focus is to create a red-state model that allows the Republican ticket to say, 'See, we've got a different way, and it works.' "
Indeed. The problem is that it has worked very badly. Last month, the state budget director announced that:
the new projections put Kansas nearly a quarter of a billion dollars short over the next two years.
For coverage of how deeply the state of Kansas is screwed, check out Chris Reeves’ blog on Daily Kos. In addition to Brownback and the other Kansas political leadership, Chris has been covering Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s many nefarious activities here, here, here, and here.
Kris Kobach is the man behind Arizona’s “papers, please” law and appears to suffer from a tremendous fear that undocumented immigrants will meet up in Kansas, take over the government, and run the state into the ground, leaving it broke or something. In other words—competition.
