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35,000 more people moving into
the state over the next five years.
And he expects the tax changes
to expand disposable income by
$2 billion over the same period.”
There are three specific claims
in there: one about jobs, one
about population, and one about
disposable income. Let's take
them one at a time and see how
they panned out.
Job growth lagged in Kansas:
Jordan promised that the tax
cuts would yield, “22,000 more
jobs over 'normal growth',”
within five years. To evaluate how
the tax cuts did, we first need to
figure out what “normal growth”
looks like.
In the five non-recession years
prior to the tax cuts, job growth
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