This story provides a helpful explanation of how exactly the tax bill we are now dealing with was passed in the first place. Moderates were promised the bill they were voting for was not going to be the final bill.
“‘We were just coming out of a recession,’ [former Senate President Steve] Morris said. ‘It was the first time we could see light at the end of the tunnel. We thought there was no way any kind of tax proposal like this was going to pass.’…
“On Friday, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced state tax revenue in January was $47 million below projections. The latest shortfall means the Legislature and Brownback face a budget deficit of about $750 million over the next 18 months.”
Read more here: http://cjonline.com/news/state/2015-01-30/high-stakes-tax-maneuvering-2012-haunts-deliberations-deficit