Tea Party Gov. Brownback suffers humiliating tax defeat at hands of Kansas House

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


BRAD REED
22 FEB 2017 AT 12:01 ET

Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback suffered a major defeat on Wednesday after the Kansas House of Representatives voted to override his veto of the legislature’s tax hikes aimed at filling massive gaps in the state budget.

Jonathan Shorman, a reporter for the Topeka Capital-Journal, Link to tweet
" target="_blank">reports that the Republican-controlled Kansas House voted to override Brownback’s veto by a margin of 85-40. The override measure will now move over to the Republican-controlled Kansas Senate.

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The Kansas City Star notes that the tax hike legislation, passed by both the Kansas House and Senate this year, “would raise income tax rates and end a tax exemption for roughly 330,000 business owners.”

Kansas’s state budget has been in disarray ever since Brownback and the Kansas legislature slashed taxes starting in 2012, as revenue for the state has routinely fallen well short of projections.



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[titaniumsalute]

1. Good for them

Being responsible

[lark]

2. Is sanity starting to break out in KS?

Of course, Brownback will never be sane, but glad that the legislature isn't just signing all the BS he sends them anymore.

[gopiscrap]

3. Fuck him

hope Brownback chokes on it and cuts off what little air is going to his brain!!!

[Eyeball_Kid]

28. He doesn't have time to think. He's getting a horsey back ride from Grover Norquist

while both are playing in the Koch Brothers' back yard. What fun!

[Cryptoad]

4. Smells like....

the tide may be turning!

[mountain grammy]

5. Finally, some backbone in Kansas.

[Yavin4]

6. Just love it that it's Republicans doing this to Brownback.

Let them go to war with themselves.

[Tikki]

7. The State legislators much have been hearing from a lot of their constituents.....

Good for the people Kansas and the State legislators.



Tikki

[Ligyron]

8. The failure of "trickle down" and tax slashing in Kansas needs be brought up in the MSM

by Democratic representatives constantly when interviewed.

[elmac]

9. too little too late

the state will be an economic dead zone for years.

[riversedge]

26. WI is on its way to a dead zone. Walker and Brownback are two peas in a pod.

[pbmus]

10. Good people of Kansas waking up...

[Hortensis]

11. This is good news. Agree with all who hope this

signals that right-wing extremists are nearing the end of their run. Koch-country KS was pulled more extremely right and earlier than many other places.

This graph is for House Republicans, who were mostly assisted to office by people like the Kochs, but Senate Republicans are only somewhat less extreme. They ALL are far more conservative than ever in American history and significantly more extremist than the conservative voters they pretend to represent.

[More_Cowbell]

12. I wondered if this might happen

The repeal of his tax breaks didn't pass with a veto-proof majority, but I did wonder if the legislators might be angry if he vetoed it. Good for (some of) them!

[askyagerz]

13. Kansas economy

1. Corn
2. Soybeans
3. Anti-abortion billboards

[TlalocW]

14. I'm one of those business owners

I'm self-employed as an entertainer (magic and balloon twisting) and computer programmer (contractor for a guy's website business). I'm planning on adding beekeeping, a photobooth business, and possibly a candy vending business (the 25 cents for a handful of M&Ms) this year.

It's been nice paying Kansas $0 in taxes, but I"ll gladly take the hit. Brownback had ruined my home state.

TlalocW

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. Yes!

Kansas is getting really sick of him. Good for them.

[brush]

16. Uh-oh Brownback. Better start packing. The Kochs have no use for you now since you failed...

at carrying out their mission.

[DFW]

31. Click on "The Evolution" This was our 2008 Brownback song.

https://myspace.com/thefreedomtoast/music/song/the-evolution-8496801-8297253

[dchill]

17. K&R.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Kansasans voted out Rs who backed Brownback last election

While their legislature remains in GOP control, there are many more traditional conservatives than rw nuts like Brownback. The voters also elected a majority D state supreme court, too. It was only a matter of time before Brownback's disasterous economic policies began to be rolled back.

[hibbing]

19. Nebraska unicameral and idiot governor

Are trying to replicate the miracle in Kansas by implementing the same policies. Tax cuts for the ruling class and cuts to education.

Peace

[workinclasszero]

20. Don't tell me trickle down didn't work....

again!?

[rogue emissary]

21. Sounds like the "experiment" is coming to an end. n/t

[Bengus81]

22. The Senate still has to overide............

I wonder and have doubts but who knows,they might get a spine and do what's right. There are 40 Senators,32 Repub and 8 Dems. This isn't over yet but it keeps crawling closer and closer. They need a 2/3 majority.

If it doesn't get overturned we'll have a shortfall of about $800-900M in fiscal 2019 which starts July 1,2018. Brokeback doesn't care,all he wants to do is run the clock out seeing how he can't run again.

[bronxiteforever]

23. Couldn't happen to a nicer reptilian!

[demtenjeep]

24. good

ecause of his mess our school district had to close several schools and programs.

I have had Crohn's disease for 10 years. Have been in the hospital several times almost died more than once.

6 years ago I was put at a program for "last chance" kiddos. It was perfect for me and the Crohn's. Low student to teacher ratio and planning time to work with chemo time and I was getting a lot better...doctor even mentioned remission.

Last year the program was gutted specifically due to Brownstain and his damned budget. Back into a large school with almost 200 students daily and it seemed most of those students acted a lot worse than my "bad kids" and most of the time there were no consequences. I had a kid cut his pubic hair in class and I was called down for sending that kid out.

Well, in Nov I got super sick and many thought I wouldn't last to Christmas. I got some time off and was able to have a couple of procedures and changed medicine and am slowly getting better. I am due to return to work after spring break and hopefully I can last the 9 weeks.

I blame brownback and his god damned tax plan for all of it

[Ilsa]

25. This needs to be on the nightly news, evening poli talk shows,

Newspapers, etc. People need to see that supply side economics fails every time.

[3catwoman3]

27. Could it be that scales are starting...

...to fall from some eyes?

[Initech]

29. The GOP strategy is slash and loot, slash and loot, repeat.

Don't bring any more revenue. Slash and loot, slash and loot, repeat.

[ToxMarz]

30. Probably won't raise income tax for the majority of voters who continually vote against their best

interests. They like the sound of it, but most don't make enough money to pay much if any income tax, and all the rich and business tax reductions are off loaded on the poor working republicans another way and blamed on the "free loaders". So YAY! They win in spite of themselves.

[joet67]

32. Looks like the cracks are starting to appear. This is a big one, in my mind.

I hope this bodes well, ongoing.

[Lanius]

33. Tax hikes to correct a massive revenue gap in the state budget?

How will the small-government, low-tax, supply siders spin this in the national media? If states are the laboratories of democracy, then Kansas proved that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

[OnionPatch]

34. Oh this is rich!!

What happened? Didn't their massive tax cuts for the rich create widespread wealth and prosperity?? I'm shocked! 😮

[demtenjeep]

35. need 3 move votes in the senate

house hugely defeated the veto

senate is stalling