We don't need to go down that road. We can learn ahead of time from Kansas's example and make sure that it doesn't happen in the first place.

This should be a learning experience, not just for Kansas, but for all of us.

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Conservatism itself or what now passes for conservative policies, conservative ideology, which now pretty much amounts to huge tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy and austerity for everybody else.

In the meantime, in places around the country where these practices have been put in place, it is failing miserably.

The poster child for this failure really has been Kansas now for several years.

And the pushback really came hard over this past week as Kansas legislators on Tuesday repudiated the tax cutting experiment that brought Republican governor Sam Brownback national attention with even his fellow Republicans voting to override his veto of a plan that will reverse many of the income tax reductions that he has championed over the past several years.

Lawmaker said that this was the only way to fix the cash strapped states budget.

The state will increase the personal income tax rates and end an exemption for more than 330,000 farmers and business owners.

Legislators expect the changes to raise $1.2 billion in new revenue over the next two years to close the projected budget shortfalls, totaling almost $1 billion through June of 2019 and it will also provide additional funds for public schools.

So these, you know, they cut taxes. We got to help the economy.

It's for the economy.

It kills the economy and it leads to cuts, huge cuts and austerity. And in this case, particularly to schools.

The conservative Republican governor still touts these income tax cuts that he enacted way back in 2012 and 2013 as pro growth policies, but voters decided otherwise last year they ousted two dozen of Brownbacks allies from the legislature and gave more power to Democrats and moderate Republicans.

Who then backed this year's tax increase the legislature's action leaves Brownbacks main political legacy now in tatters according to AP Senate majority leader Jim Denning a conservative Kansas, Kansas City area Republican.

He supported the first rounds of tax cuts back in 2012, but he over voted to override the veto.

He said he's still that that Brownbacks still believes you repeated still believes in this.

That's okay. I don't. He said I've made many bad decisions in my business career as many bad as good, but I've always backed up and mopped up my mess.

That's what I'm doing now. He's admitting he got it wrong and he's mopping up the mess. So good for him.

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