Sam Brownback kills report that would show how his Tea Party policies destroyed the Kansas economy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Sam Brownback kills report that would show how his Tea Party policies destroyed the Kansas economy
Sarah K. Burris
26 Sep 2016 at 09:17 ET

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback enacted his grand “tea party experiment” of Republican government, where he and his Republican-led legislature cut taxes and significantly reduced spending. The result has been catastrophic for the state’s economy and for jobs, but a report that would detail just how catastrophic is now being censored by the Brownback administration.

According to a shocking Kansas City Star report, Brownback set up a group in 2011 that would put out quarterly reports showing the impact of Brownback’s economic laws. His problem, of course, is that the reports don’t show what he hoped they would. Instead, they reflect the downward spiral of the Kansas economy thanks to Brownback’s failed policies.

Last January, Brownback tried to hide the report when it showed something he didn’t like. Now, they’re going a different route and killing the report entirely. Brownback had hoped that the report would reflect a sudden jolt of economic excitement with the tax cuts. Now, they show that “Kansas sometimes was faring worse than it had before Brownback became governor.”

The administration flatly rejects this account of where the report went, claiming it was always too complicated for people to understand.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/sam-brownback-kills-report-that-would-show-how-his-tea-party-policies-destroyed-the-kansas-economy/

[Solly Mack]

1. "... claiming it was always too complicated for people to understand."

Snort

[randome]

3. From the Trump, Jr. school of excuses.

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[Solly Mack]

4. Yep

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. How long will Kansans...

Allow their elected officials to treat them as simpletons?

From the leaders: you people just don't know what's good for you.

[RexCasual]

17. As long as. . .

Kansans keep voting Republican, I'd imagine. Why Kansas voters continually and persistently vote against their own best interests is anybody's guess.

[Stryst]

34. God, guns, and gays?

Or just because they always have, and change is scary.

[Pakid]

23. Maybe for the people who voted for him

but not for the rest of the world

[tclambert]

31. Well, you know, it's got, like, facts and truth and stuff that just doesn't fit the narrative

he wants to believe.

[world wide wally]

2. First, he has to have it edited by "the Kansas Ministry Of Truth"

[global1]

5. Repug Governors Thoughout The U.S. Are Doomed....

as their People will retaliate the next time they are up for election and throw them out of office.

[greymattermom]

6. so why can't folks realize

that Trump wants to turn the whole country into Kansas?

[Lulu KC]

8. I'm starting to think--

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that it is too complicated for the Trump supporters to understand.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. ...and there it is...sadly. nt

[allinthegame]

7. Seriously

Brownback is on his second term. So is LePage. So is Scott Walker.
Electric sheep dream of tax cuts and they herd to that promise always.
That is why there are so many Republican governors.

[freebrew]

10. Sarcasm?...nt

[hatrack]

11. Oh, like they did in Kansas in 2014?

Right, whatever . . .

[RexCasual]

18. I wish you were right. . .

I like to think that every election, but it's turned out to be wishful thinking. Most red state voters get their opinions from Fox News and don't even know what the real issues are, let alone how they've been abused by their own state governments.

[CanonRay]

9. Information and facts are dangerous things!

Don't you people know that?

[DorothyG]

12. That always seems like one of the more suspicious reasons...

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. Don't worry. the KC Star will be all over that whole story.

They are on Brownback's back like a tick on a dog. Have been for months and months.

[perdita9]

22. That's one good piece of news

[Tempest]

25. Don't count on it.

The one journalist who was all over Brownback and who was the author of the article about the report being killed was laid off this morning.

Yael T. Abouhalkah
40 mins ·
Good Monday morning. I am on to a new adventure after The Star decided to lay me off this morning after almost 37 years there, including 32 years on the Editorial Board.

[leftyladyfrommo]

35. Wow. That is really surprising. nt

[Lulu KC]

28. The tick's been laid off n/t

[ffr]

16. Right out of eastern block hardline messages.

Trample the truth with your own propaganda. If you can't do that, kill their story.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Sadly that report could be tattooed on the arm of every Kansan

and he'd still get re-elected...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Contrast Kansas to California performance & recent headline "Business friendliest California {...}"

[perdita9]

21. Does the Press in Kansas have a pulse?

Are they in a coma? Who is calling this guy out on his political experiments with people's lives?

[Tempest]

24. The author of the KC Star story was laid off this morning

Yael T. Abouhalkah
40 mins ·
Good Monday morning. I am on to a new adventure after The Star decided to lay me off this morning after almost 37 years there, including 32 years on the Editorial Board.


Pretty suspicious after he just wrote about the killing of the report.

[LonePirate]

26. It does make one wonder if the layoff was politically motivated.

[SpankMe]

29. Brownback's a loser. Conservative economic principles are losers. n/t

[geretogo]

30. This is what the Rethuglicon party is all about today . Destroy democratic government and any one

or anything that might have leanings toward rule of , by , or for the people and install a Neo Feudal Corporate
state by any means necessary for the benefit of the Oligarchy . Too bad a large part of this country don't
realize this .

[demigoddess]

32. I lived in Kansas in the 50s and 60s

Kansans could not imagine voting for anyone but a republican. But back then they had excellent schools.

[BREMPRO]

33. haha! "too complicated for PEOPLE to understand"

in other words the good results of "a sudden jolt and economic excitement with tax cuts" are too complicated for anyone to comprehend.. given they are designed to hide the truth of utter policy failure.

note;;;please highlight for debate Hillary..