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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLegislature overrides Brownbacks veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article154691724.html<snip>
TOPEKA
The Republican dominated Kansas Legislature that has soured on Gov. Sam Brownbacks vision for the state voted late Tuesday to roll back the governors signature tax cuts.
Lawmakers voted to override Brownbacks veto of a tax plan estimated to bring the state more than $1.2 billion over a two-year span.
The Senate vote was 27 to 13, and the House followed by agreeing 88 to 31 to supersede the Republican governors wishes on the tax plan and force the changes into law.
Lawmakers marshaled together a coalition of moderate Republicans, conservatives and Democrats to overcome the governors opposition to seeing his landmark tax cuts, which have in large part come to define his tenure in Topeka, fundamentally come to an end.
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Legislature overrides Brownbacks veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts (Original Post)
kentuck
Jun 2017
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Vinca
(50,278 posts)1. Sanity seems to be sneaking in. Next thing you know they'll fund schools again.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)2. Now you're pushing it.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)3. Brownback only cares that he can say
"I CUT TAXES!1!11" He doesn't care if the state falls apart.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)4. A new Democratic member of the Kansas House and
a woman who worked hard to make this happen died last night -
http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/2017-06-07/kansas-representative-patsy-terrell-hutchinson-found-dead-topeka