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Saturday, June 25th, 2016

Here’s What’s the Matter With Kansas

Author:     The Daily Take Team and The Thom Hartmann Program
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     Friday, 24 June 2016 00:00
 Link: Here’s What’s the Matter With Kansas
Stephan:   For several years now, as SR readers know, I have been fascinated with the train wreck that is Kansas, because it is such a clear experiment testing Republican social and economic policies. As this report reiterates yet again the outcome data from the experiment are crystal clear: Republican ideas and policies are not just wrong, not just failures, they are actively hurtful. And yet as yesterday's Brexit vote demonstrates, and Kansas trumpets, fear and ignorance can get any kind of specious nonsense elected. I predict the people of Kansas will vote to keep on the same course, and their state will continue its downward spiral into the Third World. just as millions will vote for Donald Trump.
Kansas Republican Governor Sam Brownback

Kansas Republican Governor Sam Brownback

The verdict is in, and it’s time for conservatives to face the cold hard facts.

Right-wing trickle-down Reaganomics doesn’t work.

It doesn’t work internationally, it doesn’t work nationally and it doesn’t work at the state level.

And we know this is true thanks in part to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s  2010 decision to turn his state into a “real live experiment” in Reaganism and the religion of trickle-down economics.

See more news and opinion from Thom Hartmann at Truthout here.

Quickly after taking office, Brownback and the Tea Party-controlled legislature passed massive tax breaks for the state’s 1%; repealed all income taxes for more than 100,000 businesses; tightened welfare requirements, making life harder for the working poor and poor children; privatized the delivery of Medicaid so his corporate buddies could have a bigger slice of the state action; cut $200 million from the education budget; eliminated four state agencies; and laid off 2,000 government employees.

In 2013, after he signed the largest tax cut in Kansas history with the help […]

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