Kansas GOP Governor Says He Needs To Slash School Funding After His Tax Cuts Bankrupts Treasury

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Kansas GOP Governor Says He Needs To Slash School Funding After His Tax Cuts Bankrupts Treasury

by Jameson Parker at Addicting Info

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/13/kansas-gop-governor-says-he-needs-to-slash-school-funding-after-his-tax-cuts-bankrupts-treasury/

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No. Surprisingly, slashing taxes and offering no other way to increase revenue didn’t make money appear in the state’s coffers through some sort of ethereal, spontaneous generation. However, Brownback wouldn’t be a tax-cutting superstar if he gave up easily. Instead of eyeing new tax revenue sources, he instead wants to see what he can squeeze out of cutting funding for education.

Hummel told the Wichita Eagle:


“School finance will be part of our budget conversation,” Hummel said. “The governor feels like the growth in spending that’s occurred the last several years in school finance is unsustainable. He’s going to encourage them (the Legislature) to look at ways to do that, to address that. There’s different ways to do it. You could reform the current system or you go to a completely new system.”

Nobody is quite sure what Brownback’s vision for a “completely new system” of school financing would look like, but as Think Progress points out, educators are understandably worried.


Kansas Association of School Boards Associate Executive Director Mark Tallman said that would be a high-risk strategy with many complex moving parts, and no guarantee of turning up savings. “The point of a formula is to allocate dollars. If you change the formula and allocate dollars in a different way, presumably some districts are gonna get less and some districts are gonna get more,” Tallman said Monday. Any Brownback proposal to rewrite the formula would presumably draw resistance from districts that would face school cuts from the measure.




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[geek tragedy]

1. This is what Kansas voted for--slow motion suicide.

So long as the Feds don't bail them out, they're pretty much screwed.

[tblue37]

10. Yeah--but a lot of us voted against this idiot and his minions!

We are just outnumbered by RWers who vote religiously--and yes, that pun is intended.

[msongs]

2. incompetent dems are missing great PR opportunities all over the place...for example

just run in Kansas a few nice short ads about California and how it is run by democrats and has for now solved its financial problems thanks to an all dems legislature, a dem governor, and raising taxes to provide services people want.

[applegrove]

3. Word out tonight that other GOP governors

are going to be more focussed on balancing their budgets than implementing conservative agenda they were elected on. I bet brownback has them all freaked out leading into 2016.

[Quixote1818]

7. Going back to more traditional Republican ideals before voodoo economics became the thing

I could actually live with those types of Eisenhower Republicans.


I wonder if Republicans ever really believed trickle down would work or if they just saw it as an opportunity to make the 1% mega wealthy and get kickbacks?

[applegrove]

8. I was in economics class in the mid eighties

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and was given a whole other lecture on why supply side worked. I had no way of testing out that theory. It was presented as a great theory (it didn't focus on the laffer curve). I believed it. I'm guessing that many bought in. But the powermongers at the top knew it was just a way to get what had been denied to them in the 20th century so far (more money and power). I think probably many more people were (are) duped, than knew the truth. I believe there are many truths the GOP are hiding from the public. Whereas the Democrats always want to share with the public when they figure something out. With the exception of national security of course. Cause knowledge is power. Democrats want the people to be powerful and the GOP don't. These days I'd love get a look-see at what the GOP and 1% are sitting on knowlwdgewise.

[Cha]

4. Good Luck Kansas.. sorry about those who voted for Brownback that's ruining your state for the

rest of you.

[ND-Dem]

5. "a completely new system.” = private, for-profit.

I hate these leeches who are destroying the country.

[daredtowork]

6. Michelle Rhee on speed dial.

I wish I were joking. Something like Edison schools will also come out of this wash, too. Teachers will be paid for performance, rigged to poor performance to give them "incentive to grow ".

[sakabatou]

9. Because raising taxes is too awful?

[Contrary1]

11. Well...allow me to dumb it down for the esteemed governor:

Less dollars for education = students "graduating" with fewer skills

= more graduates taking minimum paying jobs

= more families depending on social services to survive

= even fewer tax dollars

Yep, that will work out just fine.

[hadrons]

12. It's not like 50%+ of Kansans are using their education....

based on the Republican bozos they keep returning to office.