To the editor:

In Dolph Simons, Jr’s Saturday column, he waxes hopefully how Gov. Brownback might fix the broken fiscal state of Kansas he created.

Well, it will be extremely difficult. His administration had counted on a leftover rainy-day fund of $700 million in 2013 which is rapidly dwindling. His rose-colored glasses told him that his huge tax cuts for corporations and subchapter S corporations would magically stimulate the economy, an effect that has not occurred. Instead of raising revenue, the expected tax revenue has been reduced to the point that there will be a deficit of $279 million or as much as $546 million as reported in a New York Times article of Nov. 13.

The big question is once the rainy-day fund is exhausted, how will the Legislature deal with the spending pressure they have created? By taxes or by further cutting services and education? And, this treatise has not even taken into consideration the upcoming Supreme Court decision concerning the underfunding of Kansas K-12 education. It is fitting that this Brownback-led Republican Legislature owns the budget they create and it is their responsibility to fix it.