Episode 577: The Kansas Experiment
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Publisher: NPR Planet Money
Duration: 21:18
Summary from website: Sam Brownback cut taxes dramatically in Kansas. As a Republican governor of a Republican state, he was going to enact the dream. Taxes on small businesses went down to zero. Personal income taxes went down. The tax rate on the highest income bracket went down about 25 percent. Brownback promised prosperous times for the state once government got out of the way.
One goal of the tax cuts was to get more money to flow back into the pockets of hard-working, job-creating Kansans. The other was to trim back government spending. It was part of the Republican dream.
Link: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/11/509378842/episode-577-the-kansas-experiment