Doubts grow about tax plan passing to fix Kansas budget

[Zorro]

Doubts grew among Kansas legislators Tuesday about whether they can approve tax increases necessary to balance the state budget without deep spending cuts that could lead to more-crowded classrooms and even layoffs of prison guards.

Three Senate and three House negotiators canceled a second consecutive day of public talks on tax issues. The Republican-dominated Senate approved a bill Sunday that would raise sales and cigarette taxes to help raise $423 million during the fiscal year beginning July 1, but members of the GOP-controlled House doubt it can pass their chamber.

"I hope we get something done, but I'm losing hope," said Republican Sen. Les Donovan, of Wichita, his chamber's lead negotiator on tax issues.

The state's budget problems arose after legislators slashed income taxes at Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's urging in what he described as a nationally watched experiment in stimulating economic growth. He and many Republican legislators want to preserve those tax policies as much as possible, but they have shown no appetite for cutting spending enough to avoid raising taxes.

http://news.yahoo.com/doubts-grow-tax-plan-passing-021951276.html

[marble falls]

1. Welcpme to crazy land. Why can't they see it just isn't working?

[tblue37]

2. This is why:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

[Cosmocat]

3. Well, no shit ...

WTF did people expect when they were pretty clear about their agenda to cut taxes on high income earners and the wealthy?

For unicorns and lollipops to fall into their laps.

Math is math, and math on this kind of stupidity just does not add up.

FURTHER, the default position here is ALWAYS to REDISTRIBUTE the income shortfall onto the backs of the people with less disposable income in the form of sales taxes.

Now, will the people of Kansas punish these assholes at the polls?

NO, cause there is god, gays, guns or whatever fucking shit it is that will cause them to vote for the godly man/women to protect them from the evil liberal boogyman.

They will GLEEFULLY lap up whatever shit these scumbags spew putting the blame on everyone and everything but themselves.