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Whatever happened to Kansas?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point.

Governor Sam Brownback promised that massive tax cuts would be a shot of adrenaline to the Kansas

economy. Other states have been watching. Five years later, Kansas is shrinking instead of growing.

School funding, road work, and other services have been delayed or defunded. Last week, fellow

Republicans in the legislature overturned Brownback's veto and increased taxes again.

We'll look at the consequences of an experiment in supply-side economics, a strategy that's still alive and well in Donald Trump's Washington.

Later on today's talking point in the Senate, health care reform is being drafted behind closed doors.

Hardly business as usual. First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren Ali, back with To the Point. Kansas was the Canary in the coal mine for an experiment in supply-side economics, but critics say the canary is now on life support.

Even with taxes on the increase again in Kansas, will the experiment be repeated in Washington?

On our talking point later, Senate Democrats held almost 100 public hearings before passing the Affordable Care Act seven years ago.

That was business as usual.

But now, Republicans are drawing a bill to revise and repeal it in secret.

No public hearings at all. First, this news update. In London,

early this morning, a 48-year-old white man drove a van into a group of Muslims leaving a community

center after prayers. Two people, excuse me, several people were injured. Eight minutes later,

Prime Minister Theresa May declared it an act of terrorism. Here's

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