GOP Lawmakers Run From Gov. Brownback’s Kansas Tax Cuts
Hutton can try to run from this all he wants, but he’s abdicating his responsibility as a state legislator if he thinks ONLY Brownback owns it. Everyone who voted for it also owns it, and everyone who is not voting to repeal it also owns it.
If Brownback won’t reconsider any of the tax cuts, they say, he will have to figure out for himself how to balance the budget in the face of disappointing revenue.
“Let him own it,” Republican Rep. Mark Hutton said. “It’s his policy that put us there.”
Tax collections missed projections in 11 months of the last year. A growing number of Brownback’s conservative allies want to scale back the tax cuts to ease the budget crunch.
“Let him own it. It’s his policy that put us there.”
GOP Rep. Mark Hutton
Brownback took office on a pledge to make Kansas friendlier to business and successfully sought to cut the top personal income tax rate by 29 percent and exempt more than 330,000 farmers and business owners from income taxes. The moves were popular in a Legislature where the GOP holds three-quarters of the seats.
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