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Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

Kansas lawmakers vote to roll back governor’s deep tax cut

Author:     John Hanna
Source:     The Denver Post
Publication Date:     February 20, 2017 at 10:33 am
 Link: Kansas lawmakers vote to roll back governor’s deep tax cut
Stephan:   Here is the latest on Kansas, as state that has been explicitly conducting a fascinating multi-year experiment in Republican theories of governance. SR has been covering it from the beginning. The experiment has been a complete failure, to the point where now even the Republican state legislators are bailing, as this story describes.  For Governor Sam Brownback it really seems humiliating.

State Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, right, alongside Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, proposes an amendment to Senate Bill 188 while on the floor of the Kansas Senate on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 in Topeka, Kansas. The amendment, which failed to pass, was part of a tax-hike, spending-cut bill that Republican leaders had put forward last week but was dropped from the calendar.
Credit: Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ Republican-led Legislature voted Friday to roll back a deep tax cut championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, conceding it helped put the state in dire financial straits and setting up a possible showdown with him.

Brownback has vowed not to sign the bill, which would impose income tax increases that would raise more than $1 billion over two years. The state Senate voted 22-18 for it Friday, a day after the state House approved it on a 76-48 vote.

Republican leaders were split on the measure, and neither the House speaker nor the Senate president voted on it.

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