“Current GOP legislative leaders and Gov. Sam Brownback risked this trouble by decimating the tax base in their misguided 2012 effort to eliminate state income taxes. The constitution cannot be set aside, along with students’ best interests, because the state is now struggling to cover its budget. And complying with the court would be no problem, of course, if the Legislature and Brownback maintained the 7.5 percent ending balance required by state law and had $485 million to spare.”

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