Kansas governor's budget has fellow Republicans in revolt
Source: AP
Departing Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is counting on growing tax revenues from a strong national economy to pay for his proposal to increase spending on public schools, stoking an open revolt Wednesday among fellow Republicans who control the Legislature.
The term-limited conservative Republican governor released budget proposals that were supposed to flesh out his plan to phase in a $601 million increase in education funding to meet a court mandate. But his recommendations contained no way to pay for the increase other than relying on growing revenues, and no fiscal projections beyond mid-2019.
Top GOP lawmakers already were upset by the idea even before Brownback outlined his school funding proposal in his eighth and final State of the State address Tuesday evening. They fear they would be forced to consider raising taxes or making deep cuts elsewhere while also shorting public pensions and highway projects next year, when Brownback is out of office.
"I'm not sure what the logic is behind it," said state Sen. Ty Masterson, a conservative Wichita-area Republican and usual ally of Brownback. "That's irresponsible, to propose that much new spending without understanding where it's coming from."
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Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)to fill a lucrative position in tRump's cabinet no doubt. Kansas, and other states will HAVE to elect democratic politicians to clean up their mess. Maybe the rumor is true, that the gop wants to collapse the entire country, so they can destroy all the safety nets.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)They wouldn't even be having this discussion. Tinkle down at it's WORSE and it never created a job anywhere in Kansas--just a FAT windfall for Corporations,LLC's,S Corps etc for about 4 years.
Meanwhile school funding was GUTTED,KDOT road projects were GUTTED and canceled,the State sales tax was raised TWICE and didn't even help. Thankfully with new Rep voted in and some additional Dems that ridiculous tax rate was rolled back. It will take YEARS to make up for the damage that Brokeback and Republicans did to Kansas.
Now Trump is doing nearly the same thing on a National basis.