The Kansas legislature on Tuesday overrode Governor Sam Brownback’s veto to raise taxes by $1.2 billion, and national progressives are giddy. Their spin is that because the vote reverses Mr. Brownback’s tax cuts in a Republican state that Donald Trump carried by more than 20 points, Republicans everywhere should stop cutting taxes. The reality is more prosaic—and politically cynical. The press accounts gleefully talk of how...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 09, 2017 23:15 UTC