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-August 4, 2017
Republicans manifestly intend to enact tax legislation this year not via the bipartisan path of 1986 but via the same budget-reconciliation process they relied on in 1981 and in 2001, designed to outlaw filibusters and sideline Democrats.
"Tax reform — the idea of tax cuts “paid for” by closing “tax loopholes” — is quickly turning into simple tax cuts. To the extent there is interest in “paying for” tax cuts, most GOP lawmakers favor domestic-spending cuts, and especially the ever-popular-among-conservatives, ever-unpopular-among-Americans entitlement cuts. If spending cuts cause too much political heat, eventually Republicans choose unpaid-for tax cuts, even as they hand conservative-base voters an IOU for future spending cuts."
"Republicans will use the budget process to “set up” a tax bill, which drives the discussion in two very important ways. First, Republicans will need all but two of their senators on board, which makes any loophole-closing measures that are controversial (and most are controversial) politically unfeasible, since loophole-defending lobbyists need only find three GOP senators to shut it all down. And second, the budget process makes it much more feasible to go for domestic-spending cuts — which have a 24/7 constituency among conservatives in both congressional chambers — rather than any revenue measures to mitigate the damage to the nation’s fiscal health."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/gop-doesnt-care-about-tax-reform-tax-cuts-are-fine.html
gsgs comment-
Emperor Carrot has been stripping funds from every government office, possible. Salaries were never paid, to office heads and employees that were never hired, after Obama's employees were thrown out. Those that remained were thrown a pittance, scorn, and a threat of erasing their agencies from existence.
Undermining the belief in the legitimacy of agencies working for the benefit and the protection of America's people, is a steady feed of messages to The South, Deep South, Mid-West, West, North West, North East. (Yes, eccentricity was exploited in the North, and turned to the purposes of these new liars.) Underneath, running in an unseen current is the promise of White Supremacy. The unspoken promise, that white men, no matter what their station in life, would be granted the same preference and privilege, and exemptions, as those that rule their lives. This new movement, mutated from the rotting corpse of the old sickness, seeks domination through the perversion of law, and the destruction of the spirit of America's promise. Money, commerce, and law, would only flow towards one encompassing network. Starving Democracy, and insuring its death.
/end gsgs comment
What agencies did Rick Perry want to kill ? Commerce Dept., Education Dept. and Dept. of Energy.
Tax reduction obsession nurtured by the Koch brothers
The state of Kansas was supposed to be the great Republican model. Cut taxes deeply, said Governor Sam Brownback, and it would be “like a shot of adrenaline in the heart of the Kansas economy.” The taxes were cut. The adrenaline never showed. Things fell apart. Last week, Kansas Republicans revolted against their hardline governor, overrode his veto, and ditched the model.
Fed up with gaping budget shortfalls, inadequate education funding and insufficient revenue, the Republican-controlled Legislature capped months of turmoil by overriding the governor’s veto of a bill that would undo some of his tax cuts and raise $1.2 billion over two years."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/sam-brownback-kansas-budget-override.html?_r=0
April 12, 2017
"...a repudiation of Brownback is just as, if not more, threatening to the Republican Party than a repudiation of Trump would be."
"Because Sam Brownback isn’t unpopular for idiosyncratic, personal reasons; the governor didn’t decimate his state’s finances by spending public funds on sex workers. He did it by implementing the conservative movement’s blueprint for utopia."
February 24, 2017
With encouragement from Trump, Republicans in Congress are drafting the most far-reaching tax reform in 30 years, built around cutting rates for individuals and businesses. Party leaders insist, as Brownback did, that the tax cuts will pay for themselves through larger economic growth. But Democrats and many economists say the plan would explode a deficit that’s already trending back up toward $1 trillion.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...blowback-against-sam-brownback-kansas/517641/
August 4, 2017
Kansas Collects $7.6 Million More in Taxes Than Predicted in July
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Revenue says it collected $7.6 million more in taxes than anticipated in July during its first month under an income tax increase approved by legislators. The state reported collections of $453.5 million in taxes. That's 1.7 percent more than the official projection of almost $446 million. The surplus in July collections came after the state ended its 2017 fiscal year on June 30 with tax collections exceeding expectations by $72 million, or 1.3 percent. Total tax collections for fiscal 2017 surpassed $5.8 billion. Lawmakers enacted the income tax increase over Governor Sam Brownback's veto to raise an additional $1.2 billion over two years.
http://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/headlines-wednesday-august-2-2017
It was revealed, that the Tea Party was not grass roots born, but Astro Turf grown, from Koch brothers nurturing. A.L.E.C mapped out a plan
Kansas’s moderate ascendance may portend problems for Republicans in Washington, where many in the party, including President Trump, are pushing to adopt federal tax policies similar to the ones Brownback has installed in Kansas. But while Brownback had hoped what he called Kansas’s “real-live experiment” in conservative economic policy would become a national model, it has instead become a cautionary example.
Brownback and his promised tax cuts were expected to spur enough economic growth to keep the government well funded, but when that economic boom never materialized, state lawmakers faced perennial deficits and had to implement spending reductions to close the gap. And when they did, some lawmakers found that while promising to cut spending plays well during a campaign, the subsequent loss of public services often proves far more unpopular.
Kris Kobach was only concerned for his career, not the people of Kansas
“In 2016, enough people woke up and said, ‘We have to fix this. The guys in office are refusing to fix this, and come on, the evidence is plain,’” she said. “I really don’t care if it’s a Democrat or a Republican, I just want someone reasonable.”
“What happens in Kansas breaks so significantly with Republican orthodoxy on taxes,” said Stephen Moore, a former adviser to both Trump and Brownback.
“There’s one thing that unifies the Republican Party today more than anything else. We are a tax-cutting party. We are not a tax-increasing party,” Moore said. “I think Republicans across the country have to be paying attention to this.”
The return to more centrist policies could foreshadow trouble for Trump’s tax plan, which is based on the same concepts that guided Brownback’s overhaul beginning in 2012.
A plan put forward a year ago by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), contains some similar provisions. The resemblance points to the connections between Brownback and the conservative establishment in Washington. Before becoming a congressman himself, Ryan served on Brownback’s staff when the governor represented Kansas in the Senate.
Trump and Brownback have relied on the same advisers, including the conservative economist Arthur Laffer, who famously laid out the principle of supply side economics on a cocktail napkin. Laffer argued that excessive taxation could slow the economy by discouraging people from working.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-tea-party-in-kansas/?utm_term=.a4616388e1c4
Republicans manifestly intend to enact tax legislation this year not via the bipartisan path of 1986 but via the same budget-reconciliation process they relied on in 1981 and in 2001, designed to outlaw filibusters and sideline Democrats.
"Tax reform — the idea of tax cuts “paid for” by closing “tax loopholes” — is quickly turning into simple tax cuts. To the extent there is interest in “paying for” tax cuts, most GOP lawmakers favor domestic-spending cuts, and especially the ever-popular-among-conservatives, ever-unpopular-among-Americans entitlement cuts. If spending cuts cause too much political heat, eventually Republicans choose unpaid-for tax cuts, even as they hand conservative-base voters an IOU for future spending cuts."
"Republicans will use the budget process to “set up” a tax bill, which drives the discussion in two very important ways. First, Republicans will need all but two of their senators on board, which makes any loophole-closing measures that are controversial (and most are controversial) politically unfeasible, since loophole-defending lobbyists need only find three GOP senators to shut it all down. And second, the budget process makes it much more feasible to go for domestic-spending cuts — which have a 24/7 constituency among conservatives in both congressional chambers — rather than any revenue measures to mitigate the damage to the nation’s fiscal health."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/gop-doesnt-care-about-tax-reform-tax-cuts-are-fine.html
gsgs comment-
Emperor Carrot has been stripping funds from every government office, possible. Salaries were never paid, to office heads and employees that were never hired, after Obama's employees were thrown out. Those that remained were thrown a pittance, scorn, and a threat of erasing their agencies from existence.
Undermining the belief in the legitimacy of agencies working for the benefit and the protection of America's people, is a steady feed of messages to The South, Deep South, Mid-West, West, North West, North East. (Yes, eccentricity was exploited in the North, and turned to the purposes of these new liars.) Underneath, running in an unseen current is the promise of White Supremacy. The unspoken promise, that white men, no matter what their station in life, would be granted the same preference and privilege, and exemptions, as those that rule their lives. This new movement, mutated from the rotting corpse of the old sickness, seeks domination through the perversion of law, and the destruction of the spirit of America's promise. Money, commerce, and law, would only flow towards one encompassing network. Starving Democracy, and insuring its death.
/end gsgs comment
What agencies did Rick Perry want to kill ? Commerce Dept., Education Dept. and Dept. of Energy.
Tax reduction obsession nurtured by the Koch brothers
The state of Kansas was supposed to be the great Republican model. Cut taxes deeply, said Governor Sam Brownback, and it would be “like a shot of adrenaline in the heart of the Kansas economy.” The taxes were cut. The adrenaline never showed. Things fell apart. Last week, Kansas Republicans revolted against their hardline governor, overrode his veto, and ditched the model.
Fed up with gaping budget shortfalls, inadequate education funding and insufficient revenue, the Republican-controlled Legislature capped months of turmoil by overriding the governor’s veto of a bill that would undo some of his tax cuts and raise $1.2 billion over two years."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/sam-brownback-kansas-budget-override.html?_r=0
April 12, 2017
"...a repudiation of Brownback is just as, if not more, threatening to the Republican Party than a repudiation of Trump would be."
"Because Sam Brownback isn’t unpopular for idiosyncratic, personal reasons; the governor didn’t decimate his state’s finances by spending public funds on sex workers. He did it by implementing the conservative movement’s blueprint for utopia."
February 24, 2017
With encouragement from Trump, Republicans in Congress are drafting the most far-reaching tax reform in 30 years, built around cutting rates for individuals and businesses. Party leaders insist, as Brownback did, that the tax cuts will pay for themselves through larger economic growth. But Democrats and many economists say the plan would explode a deficit that’s already trending back up toward $1 trillion.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...blowback-against-sam-brownback-kansas/517641/
August 4, 2017
Kansas Collects $7.6 Million More in Taxes Than Predicted in July
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Revenue says it collected $7.6 million more in taxes than anticipated in July during its first month under an income tax increase approved by legislators. The state reported collections of $453.5 million in taxes. That's 1.7 percent more than the official projection of almost $446 million. The surplus in July collections came after the state ended its 2017 fiscal year on June 30 with tax collections exceeding expectations by $72 million, or 1.3 percent. Total tax collections for fiscal 2017 surpassed $5.8 billion. Lawmakers enacted the income tax increase over Governor Sam Brownback's veto to raise an additional $1.2 billion over two years.
http://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/headlines-wednesday-august-2-2017
It was revealed, that the Tea Party was not grass roots born, but Astro Turf grown, from Koch brothers nurturing. A.L.E.C mapped out a plan
Kansas’s moderate ascendance may portend problems for Republicans in Washington, where many in the party, including President Trump, are pushing to adopt federal tax policies similar to the ones Brownback has installed in Kansas. But while Brownback had hoped what he called Kansas’s “real-live experiment” in conservative economic policy would become a national model, it has instead become a cautionary example.
Brownback and his promised tax cuts were expected to spur enough economic growth to keep the government well funded, but when that economic boom never materialized, state lawmakers faced perennial deficits and had to implement spending reductions to close the gap. And when they did, some lawmakers found that while promising to cut spending plays well during a campaign, the subsequent loss of public services often proves far more unpopular.
Kris Kobach was only concerned for his career, not the people of Kansas
“In 2016, enough people woke up and said, ‘We have to fix this. The guys in office are refusing to fix this, and come on, the evidence is plain,’” she said. “I really don’t care if it’s a Democrat or a Republican, I just want someone reasonable.”
“What happens in Kansas breaks so significantly with Republican orthodoxy on taxes,” said Stephen Moore, a former adviser to both Trump and Brownback.
“There’s one thing that unifies the Republican Party today more than anything else. We are a tax-cutting party. We are not a tax-increasing party,” Moore said. “I think Republicans across the country have to be paying attention to this.”
The return to more centrist policies could foreshadow trouble for Trump’s tax plan, which is based on the same concepts that guided Brownback’s overhaul beginning in 2012.
A plan put forward a year ago by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), contains some similar provisions. The resemblance points to the connections between Brownback and the conservative establishment in Washington. Before becoming a congressman himself, Ryan served on Brownback’s staff when the governor represented Kansas in the Senate.
Trump and Brownback have relied on the same advisers, including the conservative economist Arthur Laffer, who famously laid out the principle of supply side economics on a cocktail napkin. Laffer argued that excessive taxation could slow the economy by discouraging people from working.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-tea-party-in-kansas/?utm_term=.a4616388e1c4
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