Right-Wing Trickle Down Economics Leaves a Wake of Ruin in Kansas

Slate has joined The New York Times and The Kansas City Star in highlighting what’s wrong with Kansas’ “insane right-wing experiment” of drastically cutting taxes, explaining that the Republican-led state “is about to destroy its roads.”

In 2012, Republican Kansas lawmakers led by Gov. Sam Brownback enacted a series of tax cuts — described by the Star editorial board as “disastrous” and the Times editorial board as “ruinous” — that deeply cut revenue streams without generating the strong economic growth conservatives promised would follow. Instead, the state… Read more…