Here’s a little history on how we got here.
“[Steve] Anderson would reliably carry the water for a state budget that envisioned no income taxes on hundreds of thousands of companies across the state. While working at AFP, Anderson implored the legislature to cut income taxes, reduce Medicaid spending and adopt a voucher program for private schools…
“Anderson is no longer Brownback’s budget director. In addition to not caring for what stodgy college professors have to say, Anderson wasn’t much of a details kind of guy. He resigned in 2013, not long after he took responsibility for a $2 billion math error in financial spreadsheets that Brownback used to shop the idea that he was cutting government spending when he wasn’t.
“But his dismissive attitude about education still permeates around Topeka. Jim Ward, a House Democrat from Wichita, predicted Tuesday morning that legislators would end the session without a tax plan, leaving it up to Brownback to make education cuts to square the budget.”