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Republicanism: a nonpartisan commission that recommends judicial nominees.”
While the debate over which governing-style produces the best results for its residents, most states will continue with status quo, as it the path of least resistance to keeping one ' s office.
Of course, if one of the experiments were to have a full trial run factual conclusions may be available. Enter Kansas. The number of LLC companies, the main tax cut recipients, doubled. But only twelve thousand jobs were created.
The tax?“ I probably get $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 a year extra. That ' s great, but if I take a step back, where is it coming from? I ' d rather it went back into the community. When you see the impact it ' s having on education, it ' s scary, they are making this state worse. For what? I think we ' d all pay a little extra to make it better” said the owner of a trucking company which is an LLC.
Schools were saved only by Moderate judges and the legislature finally declared the experiment on life support if not dead.
LKJ: [ T ] he Republican-controlled Kansas legislature took the remarkable step of overriding the governor ' s veto, finally repealing his signature tax cuts. Those tax cuts, which reduced personal income tax rates and imposed no tax at all on many kinds of business income, went into effect in 2013, and were touted by Brownback and other leading supply-side figures as the best way to boost growth, bring back jobs, and make Kansas richer. But now, almost five years into Brownback ' s“ real live experiment” in trickle-down economics, the evidence from the experiment is in. Brownback ' s hypothesis about taxes and growth was decidedly not proved. And even Kansas Republicans have had enough. On the day that the tax cuts were enacted, the Kansas City Star ran a story in which the governor ' s revenue secretary, Nick Jordan, promised that the tax cuts would yield big benefits for Kansas. It ' s worth quoting a paragraph from that report in full since it sets out Brownback ' s own terms for his tax " experiment."
“ Nick Jordan, the state ' s revenue secretary, said the administration ultimately imagines the creation of 22,000 more jobs over ' normal growth ' and
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