Will the end of the Kansas tax-cut experiment — hey, that’s what Brownback himself called it, although he refused to accept the crystal-clear results of that experiment — mark a turning point in U.S. politics? For there was an idea, a theory, behind the Kansas tax cuts: the claim that cutting taxes on the wealthy would produce explosive economic growth. When Obamacare was enacted, Republicans had some claims, almost a theory, about why it was a terrible idea. The point is that what we’re seeing now is so bad, so cynical, that it makes the Kansas experiment looks like a model of idealism and honesty by comparison. I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 19:18 UTC