Kansas’ leadership is doing a great job listening to ALEC. We wish they were listening more to Kansas parents, teachers and other concerned community members.
“The poster child for the ALEC anti-tax, low-wage policy agenda is Koch Industries’ home state, Kansas, which has been plugged by Governor Sam Brownback as a real live experiment in supply side economics. But Brownback’s tax cuts have thrown the state into fiscal crisis, saddling the state with a projected budget deficit of $190 million for the next fiscal year, no reserves, slashed public services, and lagging job growth…
“Sold to the press and state policymakers as an objective, academic measure of state economic performance, ‘Rich States Poor States’ is in reality a scorecard ranking states on the adoption of extreme policies pushed by the Koch-funded ALEC that have little or nothing to do with good economic outcomes.”
Read more here: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/11/12982/alecs-rich-states-poor-states-paints-happy-face-failing-state-policies