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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 03:38 PM Sep 2015

Gov. Brownback's Big Fat Business Tax Cuts destroys Kansas

Gov. Brownback's Big Fat Business Tax Cuts Create Tiny Trickle Of Jobs

A real voter guide would include examples of what happens when Republicans actually implement their crazy economic policies -- like Sam Brownback in Kanas. Via the Kansas City Star:

During his re-election campaign, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback last August pledged to add 100,000 new private sector jobs in his second term. That’s an average of 2,000 jobs a month.

[...] In the seven months since then, the state has added a total of ... drum roll ... 1,800 private sector jobs total, according to the August employment report from the state and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That’s around 260 jobs a month, far below the 2,000 per month goal.That’s a puny growth rate of less than .2 percent so far this year.That does not stack up well with the U.S. average. Private sector jobs in the nation have grown at a rate of 1.2 percent this year, six times faster than in Kansas.

And yes, that’s even though Brownback’s beloved income tax breaks have been in effect since January 2013. They supposedly were going to attract more businesses and employment to the Sunflower State.

Instead, the excessive tax cuts have bled the state treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars — and the hoped-for private sector jobs have not come anywhere close to fulfilling that loss of funds.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/gov-brownbacks-tax-cuts-result-tiny

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Gov. Brownback's Big Fat Business Tax Cuts destroys Kansas (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2015 OP
After 40 years of this crap doing nothing but beggaring labor while fattening billionaires Warpy Sep 2015 #1

Warpy

(111,243 posts)
1. After 40 years of this crap doing nothing but beggaring labor while fattening billionaires
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 04:22 PM
Sep 2015

you'd think the GOP rank and file, who aren't being paid off by the billionaires, would start to catch a clue here and there.

Yet they still get buffaloed by the "values voter" garbage and they keep voting these right wing shitheads into office.

I'm afraid I'm plumb out of sympathy for them. I'm sick of being dragged down to the bottom with them. I long for the days when the holy rollers were apolitical, their eyes to heaven instead of mistakenly trying to create a Utopian theocracy here on earth.

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