Tuesday, January 20, 2015

What Happens When Conservative Ideologues Get to Run Their Own States | Alternet

What Happens When Conservative Ideologues Get to Run Their Own States | Alternet

"First and foremost is the laughingstock that extremist Republican Sam Brownback has made of Kansas. Brownback slashed social welfare spending and implemented steep regressive income tax cuts, promising that his Laffer curve-based supply-side economic experiment would bring jobs and prosperity to Kansas while increasing government revenue.

In fact, the opposite has happened. Revenue projections in Kansas are in freefall, and the economic growth benefiting the rest of the country--including economically similar areas in surrounding states--has bypassed the Sunflower State."

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