Wingnuts’ tax reckoning: Why Sam Brownback’s job is about to get really miserable
"Given that Kansas has already implemented some of the country’s largest cuts in education funding, slashed mental health services (after which suicides spiked by 30 percent), and kicked more than 1,400 disabled people off its Medicaid rolls, it’s unclear what other savage cuts Merrick and Co. would have Brownback pursue. The governor himself has already given Kansans an idea of what the next four years have in store, announcing last week that he will cut highway funding and reduce contributions to the state’s pension fund, which is already one of the worst-funded in the nation."
