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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Scotty on June 11, 2015, 11:18:57 am
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Welcome to "This Week in Kansas". This one is a doozy. I'll provide a basic timeline.
Last year: Kansas cuts income taxes to the top earners
This year: Kansas faces record budget shortfall. No one who understands economics is surprised by this.
Last week: Kansas increases sales tax to make up budget shortfall. It won't work in time.
This Week: Kansas decides to furlough state employees. Kansas then declares all state employees to be essential (http://m.landlinemag.com/Story.aspx?StoryID=29189#.VXmz-t8o5Ag) to forestall shutdown.
Monday: Governor Brownback threatens to defund the state judiciary if it rules against him on budget matters. (http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7539830)
Result: the state will cease functioning in two or three weeks, and may very well not have a judicial system when that happens.
What the ****, Kansas.
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but but but trickle down
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Does right-wing ideology have any real redeeming factors, or do we just have it because some people have to move slower than other people?
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depends on what you mean by right wing.
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I get the feeling most right wing politicians don't try to abolish the judicial branch because it gets in the way of their megalomaniacal lust for power. Sam Brownback is a special exception.
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I get the feeling most right wing politicians don't try to abolish the judicial branch because it gets in the way of their megalomaniacal lust for power. Sam Brownback is a special exception.
Yeah there's no institution more inherently conservative than the judiciary. This is straight up desperation.
Of course what you didn't mention is that Brownback was just reelected. There's a lot of time for this to get uglier and uglier.
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If it keeps going he might be successfully impea-
Wait, ****.
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If it keeps going he might be successfully impea-
Wait, ****.
I'm sure he'd be strung up by the federal government instead.
Just kidding, the feds can't string their own shoes
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depends on what you mean by right wing.
True, what is meant by 'right-wing' ideology in this case?
I'm somewhat to the right (overall I'd say I'm a center-right person) of Democrats in the US and I don't care for Brownback.
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Right-wing, left-wing, whatever...it doesn't matter. The current, overall system of governance here in America is the political equivalent of letting Jesus take the wheel.
/closes eyes and waits for inevitable
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Was that meant to be a slam at religious people?
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That sounds like an excellent question to take to PMs, and not **** up a thread with.
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It's a poor choice of language on my part.
Was that meant to be a slam at religious people?
Not at all; I mean that when I read the news, I get the sense that the government has taken its hands off of the wheel.
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Thank you reagomics.
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The problem is when you refuse to look into issues as a voter, it's very easy for people to still find a reason to vote for this guy -.- As soon has he gives any explanation, even a bad one, for what's happened to the state's economy, a lot of people will go "yea ok" and not change views.