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Editorial whining is beginning to happen today ALL OVER Kansas media outlets....as Sam Brownback was re-elected last week and the people will get to keep MORE of their hard earned money.
Ask yourself how many of the liberal pundit whiners, wringing their hands over school budget cuts, are going to WRITE CHECKS from their own personal accounts to help the school in their neighborhood.
Then cue the crickets and watch the tumbleweed roll.
I think that’s called effective governance. Refocus on the core services and cut the fat. It’s how the real world works outside of government fantasy land.
I'm sure some voters would have liked .Gov to have released such forecast before the election.
First off, I’d like to know what the hell a “consensus revenue estimating group” is and is it in any way shape or form related to a “settled science” consensus.
Timing to me seems to a bit retaliatory in nature given recent election events.
IOW, check this sh!t out and vet the “group”.
“...make deep cuts in spending during the remaining seven months of the budget year to avoid a $278 million deficit.”
“...approved a budget of about $6.3 billion for the fiscal year...”
“Deep cuts” are 4.4% of the budget? LOL. They can probably cut 4.4% of their budget by aggressively reducing the amount of office supplies taken home by state workers.
If Brownback had done what the Left advocated, he’d have been chucked out to the unemployment line like Tom Corbett.
Getting government under control is a thankless job.
...make deep cuts in spending during the remaining seven months of the budget year to avoid a $278 million deficit.
A budget of $6.3 BILLION with a deficit of $278 million is a shortfall of less than 4.5%.
Yes, the libs think that less than 4.5% is equal to DEEP cuts. Of course, an INCREASE of 4.5% in taxes would be described by these same libs as a "minimal cost".
Get rid of government vehicles for personal use
Put every penny of spending online for citizen review
Stop funding the arts
Stop state licensing of professions and turn it over to a private entity to offer guarantees of competency and excellence.
Medicaid, welfare and any state entitlement payments should stop at 100% of federal poverty levels
Stop double dipping at the state trough when workers retire from one state agency and then go to work at another state agency for a second pension.
Imagine that, the government will have to live within its means.
If a $205 million decrease can result in a #278 million deficit, then they were already well under water. Sounds like typical political shenanigans.
On a federal level, every single time federal income taxes were lowered, revenues actually increased to the Treasury as a result of all of the economic activity the tax cuts stimulated.
Some perspective:
Kansas: population 2.9 million. Budget $6 billion
Connecticut: population 3.5 million. Budget $20 billion.
Pennsylvannia: population 12.8 million. Budget $30 billion.
Maryland: population 5.9 million. Budget $37 billion.
Kansas at baseline is relatively sensible when compared to the Blue States, which are out of control.
Starve the beast. If the locals want to spend more money on schools they can vote yes and damn well pay for it.
The government will be taking less of the people’s money?
How is this a bad thing?
So, he had been prepared to waste $100 million?