What prevents Kansas from diversifying its economy?
Umhhh - you’re asking if the folks who live in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Hollywood are going to move to Topeka and Dodge City because Kansas has decided to get into the film and TV business? Or that the tech giants in Silicon Valley are going to be persuaded to put their operations in a location where they can attract Jayhawks and Wildcats instead of graduates of Stanford, Berkeley and Cal Tech?
Even if mass entertainment and computer applications would be a good match to the locale and human capital of Kansas in the future, the comparison the author of the article was making doesn’t involve a hypothetical future Kansas, it involves two states with two very different economies at this point in time - it’s a bogus comparison, and as such tells us very little if anything about the consequences of tax policy.