“What will be next?”…
“It seems impossible to many Kansans that the governor and legislative leaders can’t recognize that the course they are on is damaging to the state and its residents. Even more unbelievable is that they can see that damage but are unwilling to do anything about it. Their refusal to consider any adjustment to large income tax cuts passed in 2012 lends credence to the suggestion of some observers that the current financial situation might be exactly what the governor and other leaders who favor smaller government planned all along. It’s hard to cut spending, they reason, but if you strangle state revenues to the point that there is no money to spend, it makes it easier to politically justify those cuts.”
Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/mar/06/editorial-budget-hole/?opinion