Lessons for Other States from Kansas' Massive Tax Cuts
March 27, 2014
Tax cuts enacted in Kansas in 2012 were among the largest ever enacted
by any state, and have since been held up by tax-cut proponents in
other states as a model worth replicating. In truth, Kansas is a
cautionary tale, not a model. As other states recover from the recent
recession and turn toward the future, Kansas’ huge tax cuts have left
that state’s schools and other public services stuck in the recession,
and declining further — a serious threat to the state’s long-term
economic vitality. Meanwhile, promises of immediate economic
improvement have utterly failed to materialize.
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