Sam Brownback, bringing the Left and Right together!!! Let the Dave Trabbert/KPI counterattacks begin!

Not only are the policies bad, but the process (such as it is) is terrible. No serious deliberation, no consideration of multiple viewpoints, just ideology and a complete contempt for government, unless it involves regulating women's bodies.

People, please read the "link text" included in the article. It is astounding that what many of us on this forum have been saying is mirrored in the article.

If you do not believe the assertions in the article, google the principals interviewed. No politics involved, this is just a simply factual article about a simply "simple-minded" attempt at tax reform disguising business-friendly, citizen-unfriendly political maneuvering.

Governor Brownback, please respond, and not with "the legislature did it, not I".

Mr. Trabert, don't even try to spin this one.

RIP, the once-great state of Kansas

TOPEKA — The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a long and difficult battle with extremism that became markedly more aggressive in 2010. The struggle left the state so weakened it could no longer fight against the relentless attacks by the fatal disease.

Kansas was born on Jan. 29, 1861.

The state is preceded in death by fair taxation, good highways, strong education, family farms, a good public parks and wildlife system, open government, neighborliness and belief in helping each other out, freely elected public servants, and political moderation.

Kansas is survived by widespread poverty, low-wage jobs, high property taxes, pollution, poorly educated children, out-migration and rural depopulation, foreign land and farm ownership, lobbyist-funded legislators, chronic mistreatment of the disabled, a maniacal hatred of government and children who dream of living anywhere else.

Throughout its life, Kansas often aligned with leading progressive causes. William Allen White, one of the state’s most notable residents, once wrote that “if it’s going to happen, it happens first in Kansas.” That once was true. Kansas was the first state to ban the Ku Klux Klan, and the first to elect women to public office — one as mayor and another as sheriff.

Kansas was a leader in public education, with one-room school houses dotting the plains. A full 12 years before it was a national concern, Kansas established child labor laws that restricted employment of children in potentially dangerous industries.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/09/4171966/rip-the-once-great-state-of-kansas.html#storylink=cpy

Wow.

You don't often see both left and right leaning economists criticizing something like this - it must be really awful.

..."worst tax measures passed by a state in the last two years."

Lets see, that would be 50th worst tax measure in two years and headed for the worst in the last 10years . something we can be proud of and crumble with.

..."an incentive to game the tax system without doing anything productive for the economy," said Joseph Henchman

And of course that is what it takes to grow business in the state.

"jaw-dropping" it will prevent the state from making investments in education and infrastructure.

We don't have to worry about infrastructure, someone else did that, we didn't build it. Education will still be available to those that matter so let that crumble to.