If You Look At Kansas - GOP Believes Rich & Business Should Pay No Taxes.

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2. Some of the details:

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/21/4079538/sam-brownbacks-illusions-dissolve.html#storylink=cpy

But an alert reporter from the Wichita Eagle challenged that claim, leading to an admission from Brownback’s budget director, that, oops, due to a spreadsheet error, the governor was working with incorrect information. Instead of falling, state spending under Brownback was slightly higher than it was when his predecessor, Democrat Mark Parkinson, was governor.
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Without documentation, the governor says his proposed merger of the Kansas Turnpike Authority and state Transportation Department will save $30 million in two years. When questioned by a legislative committee, the state transportation secretary said he assumed the savings would come through eliminating duplication, though of what he was not sure.
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After a couple of hours of testimony, committee chairwoman Mary Pilcher-Cook moved to adjourn the meeting. Sen. Laura Kelly, the ranking Democrat, interrupted with an inconvenient question.

“Shouldn’t we hear from some proponents of a Medicaid expansion?” she asked.

Pilcher-Cook was having none of that. The public health and welfare committee will hear only one side of an issue with profound implications for Kansas, its economy and its citizens.