Your Tax Dollars at Work

[BigPete]

Well at least the church zombies will appreciate these changes...or the **** brother supporters...or the owners of Cessna...



I can't imagine any real citizens in Kansas appreciating the fallout of these policy changes. Like I said, let's just wait and see, but then I live in IL near St. Louis so this won't affect me.

 

[MassHavoc]

What is going on in Kansas? What kind of changes? I've hated the state for a while now because no matter how many Klem's there are to boost their credit, nothing can overcome the existance of Willsboro or westboro or whatever the **** that wackjob church is. Are they the ones that go him elected?

 

[BigPete]

Are you allergic to research, Mass?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...cuts/2011/11/02/gIQAkbnOAP_story.html?hpid=z2



If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas.

In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama’s health-care law. And that’s just the small stuff.

...

Brownback has shown little patience with anyone who might stand in the way of the revolution. Nine moderate Republicans in the state Senate who crossed Brownback face primary challengers in 2012. His administration has acquired a reputation for engaging even the smallest critics. The governor’s aides grabbed national attention after they went after a teenager who tweeted derogatory comments about Brownback during a visit to the statehouse. The governor later apologized for their behavior.

 

[supraman]

Are you allergic to research, Mass?



http://www.washingto...ry.html?hpid=z2



If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas.

In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama’s health-care law. And that’s just the small stuff.

...

Brownback has shown little patience with anyone who might stand in the way of the revolution. Nine moderate Republicans in the state Senate who crossed Brownback face primary challengers in 2012. His administration has acquired a reputation for engaging even the smallest critics. The governor’s aides grabbed national attention after they went after a teenager who tweeted derogatory comments about Brownback during a visit to the statehouse. The governor later apologized for their behavior.

Wonder how much that has reduced his budget.

 

[MassHavoc]

No, but if you are going to throw stuff out there like that, why should I have to track it down? See you knew where it was at.

 

[klemmer]

What is going on in Kansas? What kind of changes? I've hated the state for a while now because no matter how many Klem's there are to boost their credit, nothing can overcome the existance of Willsboro or westboro or whatever the **** that wackjob church is. Are they the ones that go him elected?

They aren't Kansans.



If you say "pro-life", you tend to be in pretty good shape in elections here. Nothing else seems to matter to those who actually cast a ballot.

 

[winos5]

Wonder how much that has reduced his budget.

Stop it. This is heinous. He cut State funding for the Arts dammit.

 

[winos5]

From Wiki;



Governor Brownback has made reviving the Kansas economy the core goal of his administration. Over the decade January 2001 to January 2011, Kansas lost 25,000 private sector jobs, while government employment expanded.[sup][28][/sup] During that time, Kansas state government all funds spending increased every year, taxes were continually raised with the result that the state began the last fiscal year of the previous administration with precisely $876.05 in the bank.

Since January 2011, private sector employment has increased more than 10,000; the first cut to all funds state spending since 1972 [$800 million worth] was implemented, and Kansas is on track to bank over $300 million at the end of the current fiscal year.

Governor Brownback is trying to set the state for a decade of growth to make up for the "lost decade" of jobs. He will propose fundamental tax reform to encourage investment and generate wealth while creating new jobs. Consistent with those objectives, there will also be structural reforms to the state's largest budget items--- (1) School Finance[sup][29][/sup], (2) Medicaid [sup][30][/sup] and (3) State Pensions (KPERS), which have unfunded liabilities of $8.3 billion.[sup][31][/sup] These reforms will end the current unsustainable growth in government expenditures while improving and preserving them for future generations and set the stage for a new era of Kansas prosperity

 

[BigPete]

Wonder how much that has reduced his budget.

Before or after he added a department to manage all the cuts?

 

[BigPete]

Here's the question Wino, will the major businesses in Kansas expand now that their governor cut some public jobs? Count me in the 'doubt it' group.

 

[supraman]

Stop it. This is heinous. He cut State funding for the Arts dammit.

Though it is constitutionally encouraged to fund the arts it isn't necessary.

 

[BigPete]

Though it is constitutionally encouraged to fund the arts it isn't necessary.

Yep, keep those that aren't able to pay for a 'good' education, stupid and uncultured. They are easier to control when they aren't free thinkers.

 

[Tater]

Since January 2011, private sector employment has increased more than 10,000; the first cut to all funds state spending since 1972 [$800 million worth] was implemented, and Kansas is on track to bank over $300 million at the end of the current fiscal year.

Governor Brownback is trying to set the state for a decade of growth to make up for the "lost decade" of jobs. He will propose fundamental tax reform to encourage investment and generate wealth while creating new jobs. Consistent with those objectives, there will also be structural reforms to the state's largest budget items--- (1) School Finance[sup][29][/sup], (2) Medicaid [sup][30][/sup] and (3) State Pensions (KPERS), which have unfunded liabilities of $8.3 billion.[sup][31][/sup] These reforms will end the current unsustainable growth in government expenditures while improving and preserving them for future generations and set the stage for a new era of Kansas prosperity

Here's the question Wino, will the major businesses in Kansas expand now that their governor cut some public jobs? Count me in the 'doubt it' group.

The answer was in his post.

 

[winos5]

Where's a good "Occupy" protest when you need it.

 

[winos5]

The answer was in his post.

Stop reading my posts dammit. Brownback is an evil industrialist fundamental christian rightwing asshole trying to steal your right to have a public funded goverment subsidized abortion *at Planned Parenthood* and nothing you say will change it.



*edit*

 

[klemmer]

Stop reading my posts dammit. Brownback is an evil industrialist fundamental christian rightwing asshole trying to steal your right to have a public funded goverment subsidized abortion *at Planned Parenthood* and nothing you say will change it.



*edit*

You know him well.