Kansas jobs plummet in latest disaster for Sam Brownback’s tax-cut strategy

[DonViejo]

BY YAEL T. ABOUHALKAH
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This has been a bad week for Gov. Sam Brownback and others who believe his massive income tax cuts are going to dramatically boost employment in the state.

▪ A new report Friday showed that Kansas had lost a whopping 4,300 jobs in July from a month earlier.

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▪ Earlier this week, a separate report showed Kansas is missing out on the growth in manufacturing employment, which is happening across much of the rest of America.

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The state lost 39,000 manufacturing jobs during the recession and has gained back only about 4,000.

Overall, Kansas has had one of the worst rates of employment growth in the nation in the last year, even as the tax cuts continue to cut into funding available for schools, roads and other basic services in the state.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article31716450.html#storylink=cpy

[Fred Sanders]

1. Massive failure of the same thing (also see Wisconsin) that the GOP wants nationally....but who has time to talk about that?

What does Trump think of Oreo cookies, is the important news of the day!?

America is being taken for a ride by it's corporate media.

Again.

[riversedge]

7. and it is part of Walker's platform to take his "reforms" Nationally.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Dollars to Olympic dressage horses, I bet Romney is chaffing at the bit to get back in...what a mess the

GOP has self-created by putting all their rotten eggs in a Fox's basket.

[riversedge]

11. You probably are right. Mitt really wants to be Pres.

[-none]

2. Are there enough people left in Kansas for a 'Recall Brownback' petition?

Or will they have to prove the election fraud?

[MuseRider]

13. Can't recall

it would take up way too much time and money only to allow a worse person to take the lead or someone Brownback picks. There is no win there.

If anyone thinks that KKrisKobach is going to allow us to have the vote counts from those machines they are going to be sadly mistaken. My guess is they are no longer available to anyone.

I have spent years bemoaning the observations of my fellow countrymen who would continually say mean and often, but not always, untrue statements about the state I love and live in.

Now I want everyone to pay very close attention, this may be the best way to keep the country from trending any more this way. Watch us fail an get sold off to the highest Koch associated bidder and scream about it out loud. This is a disaster, one in the making for 20-30 years and now coming to fruition. There will be nothing left here I fear but corporate entities.

[safeinOhio]

3. Ideology vs real world

Guess who wins.

[pipoman]

4. Yeah, I don't know

I work for an employer of 450 people and report directly to the VP of HR. I have been unable to fill jobs I have always been able to fill and my boss reports the same in all departments. We have recently increased starting pay and made equity adjustments throughout my department. All of these (full time) jobs have full benefits.

We are 30 miles from Wichita and the same is true there based on a round table at a recent HR seminar.

I'm not sure where all of these unemployed people are, I wish they would swing by...

[roscoeroscoe]

10. what kind of work?

I'm really curious, please share some details.

[pipoman]

12. Senior healthcare....all departments from grounds, laundry and dining

Through nursing...average job time in the organization is over 5 years (almost unheard of in any organization of this size). A good organization with an outstanding reputation staffed and administered by young and progressive staff.

[jeff47]

17. Well, I'm not in your industry...

but given the pile of wreckage Brownback and company is making of your state, especially the education system, you can't pay me enough to move there without bankrupting your company.

And that's not an anti-Kansas sentiment. I left upstate NY for the same reason. Decades of neglect by the state had created a giant pile of failure in places that were not New York City or its suburbs, due to state politics.

A lot of "pro-business" politicians seem to forget businesses have to actually attract workers.

[tanyev]

5. Well obviously they just need to cut taxes even more.

[MoonRiver]

6. This is apparently what the voters wanted,

unless the electoral fraud uncovered by that Wichita State professor, is even more widespread than thought.

[WI_DEM]

9. Kansas made there decision in 2014--the dem was leading in the polls

but then when push came to shove they couldn't vote for a democrat in the end despite Brownback's first term being a disaster for the state and especially education.

[Wounded Bear]

14. A very Bush-like story being re-told...

They seem to own the ballot boxes.

[Logical]

19. We are a hell hole of GOP idiots! Nt

[LiberalElite]

15. How is it this guy isn't running for President? -

[brush]

16. Oh he had planned to when he initiated all the trickle down/tax cut programs . . .

using his state as a laboratory for Republican supply-side economic theory, which he foolishly though would be a success, despite thirty years of failure with repug-installed Reaganisms on the national and state levels.

He thought he would ride a wave of accolades from his successes into a strong run for president.

He had to forget about that grand vision of himself in the White House though when everything went, preditably to everyone but repugs, to shit.

[jeff47]

18. His plan was to run after KS was a massive success.

When success didn't quite happen, he didn't quite run.