Tax policy is inextricably linked with education funding in Kansas. Here’s more cause for concern. Read the whole article but here’s the conclusion.
“The states have no good reasons to believe that tax cuts will bring the desired manna. Yet they continue to erode their tax bases in the name of business growth during an era in which few states can afford to cut critical services ranging from education to infrastructure repair. Some ideas live on and on, no matter how much evidence accumulates against them. States that follow them do so at their own peril.”
Read more here: http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2015/07/28-state-income-tax-cuts-bad-idea-gale