Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) seemed to blame Kansas’ state legislature for the impact of deep tax cuts Brownback signed into law two years ago.
“I proposed a flat tax with a small budget accelerator,” Brownback said Friday during an address to the Great Topeka Chamber of Commerce, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. “What I got from the Legislature was a naked tax cut with none of the pay-fors.”
Brownback added that he “took it because it was the best we were going to get.”
Brownback’s comments are some of the latest acknowledgements Brownback has made that those tax cuts have had a less than ideal result —Kansas is projected to have a budget deficit of $280 million this year and $436 million next year.
Earlier in the month Brownback announced that he would consider raising taxes in order to fill the budget gap. Brownback’s latest budget plan proposes raising taxes on cigarettes and liquor.
And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for you meddling Math People!
Interesting tactic–blame someone else for the bill you signed into law. I think someone may have just failed high school civics.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Kansas - Watch it work.
I like his imagining the existence of a bus big enough to throw the entire Kansas legislature under that at the same time comes no where near him.
Once you’ve gone where Brownback’s gone here, how much room can you possibly have left to move?
Are Brownbackian panicky assertions out of political desperation as effective in generating expansive energy as Bill Belichick directing his QBs and support staff to vigorously rub their balls?