New Numbers Out of Tea Party-Loving Kansas Destroy Entire GOP Economic Platform

April 7, 2016 By Allen Clifton

In case you weren’t aware, the state of Kansas and Governor Sam Brownback have been sort of the “model” for utopian, tea party Republican economic policies. In 2012, Brownback passed huge tax cuts that he guaranteed would lead to tremendous job growth in the state. The problem is, they’ve had the opposite effect. In fact, just last year, the state reported a 45 percent drop in revenue from the year prior to Brownback’s tax cuts going into effect. Then just this past August, reports came out showing that the state was losing jobs while most of the country was seeing gains in employment. Not only that, but the same report showed that, because of the tax cuts, the state’s treasury had been drained of hundreds of millions of dollars since the tax cuts went into effect.

Well, new numbers have come out that completely destroy the ridiculous Republican scam about tax cuts creating jobs. As most people know, Kansas City is actually split between the states of Kansas and Missouri. This makes the city itself a great barometer to judge whether or not Brownback’s tax cuts really led to any sort of impressive job creation. Spoiler Alert: They didn’t.

In fact, according to findings from The Kansas City Star, Missouri gained employment at a rate almost five times faster than Kansas between February 2015 to February 2016. The Missouri side of Kansas City added 13,900 jobs over that period (up 2.4 percent), while the Kansas side only gained 2,200 jobs (up 0.5 percent). Not only that, but professional and business services experienced the largest increase in employment, up 4,500, with all those jobs happening on the Missouri side.

Meaning that, it’s not just the Missouri side that’s creating more jobs – they’re creating better jobs as well. While this is just one state, numerous examples out of Kansas have proven that tax cuts do absolutely nothing but drain state budgets and have almost nothing to do with creating jobs.

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