How bad it is in Kansas

Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas set out to make the Republican Utopia of low taxes and high economic growth.

It hasn't quite worked out the way he planned.

Sam Brownback’s failed ‘experiment’ puts state on path to penury

Mr. Brownback’s Kansas trial is rapidly becoming a cautionary tale for conservative governors elsewhere [and, I may add, Tea Party Congresspersons and Senators ] who have blithely peddled the theology of tax cuts as a painless panacea for sluggish growth. Most key indicators suggest that job creation and economic growth in Kansas are lagging those of its neighbors.

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As it happens, spending reductions have been sufficiently draconian and divisive that large numbers of Kansans, including more than 100 current and former GOP elected officials, have expressed alarm and are supporting the man trying to unseat Mr. Brownback, Paul Davis, the Democratic minority leader in the state’s House of Representatives. There have been particular expressions of anxiety about cuts to per-pupil expenditures in public schools, which have dropped more than 10 percent since 2008."

Yep, certainly not what he was hoping for.  And now we're hoping he's GONE.