'Like taking a payday loan': Kansas lawmakers rip Gov. Brownback's shady new budget plan
Source: RawStory
Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s “experiment” in supply-side economics has been a disaster for his state’s finances — and his latest proposal to keep the government funded is getting panned by lawmakers in both parties.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Brownback wants to use money from the state’s long-term investments to cover a budget shortfall that’s projected to be a whopping $930 million over the next 18 months. The goal of tapping into the investment fund, says Kansas Republican Senate Majority Leader Jim Dennin, is to “to get out of the crisis” the government is now facing “without having to do deep, deep cuts to K-12” education.
However, at least one member of Brownback’s own party is not ready to sign off on such a plan — and has even compared it to shady financial engineering. “It looks to me like we’re taking a payday loan,” said Republican Sen. Carolyn McGinn. “We’re borrowing against ourselves again internally, and I think it’s just going to put us further away from where we need to get to.”
Democratic leader Anthony Hensley, meanwhile, said that tapping the fund was yet “another gimmick” that would do anything to fix the state’s long-term budget outlook.
###
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/like-taking-a-payday-loan-kansas-lawmakers-rip-gov-brownbacks-shady-new-budget-plan/
= new reply since forum marked as read
a kid exploring new ideas. He's also not exactly a brilliant thinker, but while running for VP he finally became aware that most people don't find randianism respectable and started disavowing Rand herself while sticking to libertarian ideas in general. 
Given his age and commitment to draconian economic ideals, I actually suspect Ryan may be the real thing: libertarian by PERSONALITY, as are perhaps 13% of all people. Libertarian personalities have one main principle that pings with them: personal freedom, thus an ideology that elevates selfishness into the prime virtue. The more extreme ones may have that as their only principle, but it's isolated alone at the top of any list for all of them. They also are mostly or entirely devoid of altruism, regarding it as a weakness and stupidity they're free of.
(Liberal and conservative personality types, in contrast both hold various principles and are altruistic, only varying on how large the groups they feel responsible to are.)
Ryan's patrons, the Koch brothers, say they're libertarians, but their father was a harsh authoritarian who admired the fascist economy of the Third Reich, and it's likely they're both really just their father's sons.
Babbling on, but this stuff pulls my string.
One of the first states to enact prohibition and one of the last to repeal it...
The reformist Progressive movement of the early twentieth century which set much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century is as similar to its new incarnation as are the Democratic and Republic policies of the early twentieth century similar to current policies. 
as an archetype for the future of politics in America, in which fiscal conservatism becomes the universal norm and political war is waged over a handful of hot-button cultural issues.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F
“It looks to me like we’re taking a payday loan,” said Republican Sen. Carolyn McGinn. “We’re borrowing against ourselves again internally, and I think it’s just going to put us further away from where we need to get to.”
Where are you trying to get too?
Dear Ms. McGinn, in the last two budget cycle's how did you vote on your state budgets?
You voted to gut your social safety nets, you attacked your state employees and your state is in worst condition and in jeopardy with it's bonds------------again, you also voted to give the Koch's and others in your state a tax break, did you by chance forget this?
So to balance the trickle down books you go after education, not the college level coaches pay, but the education of k-12 children--------------think about that for the moment------------robbing peter to pay the proverbial paul---------------amazing.
And then saying where do we need to to get to................
Your a hypocrite and your fascist party have given your fascist governor everything he wanted, and to top it all off, you gave the country one Kris Kobach and Cross Check.
The question is how do you sleep at night---------------with taxpayer dollars going around saying what you said, there is a old saying no s*** sherlock your in trouble
And for all of Kansan that keep voting to put people in office like her and the other republican fascists all you have to do is say no, it's really simple, and raise the taxes from the top of the food chain, that you protect, try it sometime, principles are more important than right wing fascist allegiance to a failed policy and party
North Kansas.
