UPDATE. Oklahoma follows Kansas' "live conservative experiment" and achieves similarly disastrous results

Tax Cuts Put Oklahoma In A Bind. Now Gov. Fallin Wants To Raise Taxes'.  (NPR, 2/82018)

Fallin moves up a two spots as Chris Christie's last day in office was January 16, 2018, and Brownback resigned to accept a Trump appointment as ambassador at large for international religious freedom.  (Morning Consult ratings are for the 4th quarter of 2017)

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UPDATE. Oklahoma and Kansas a likely blueprint for national GOP meltdown.  (12/1/2017)


Original 9/22/2015 post, "Governor Sam Brownback's 'live conservative experiment' leads to anemic job growth in Kansas", starts here.

New, disastrous Kansas job loss exposes pure folly of Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax cuts.  (Kansas City Star, 9/18/2015)

Brownback pushed through the excessive and unfair income tax cuts in 2012, contending at the time they would help woo new jobs to Kansas. In turn, businesses would create more revenue to fill in the money that was being lost through the tax cuts. 

That plan has not worked. 

Other Kansas tax cut debacle posts:
Headline News: What Kansas Governor Sam Brownback said in 2012 and what's happening now.  (5/4/2015)
Kansas Job Growth (and what Investor's Business Daily chose to 'overlook').  (4/1/2015)
 About that Kansas 'live' experiment in tax cutting.  (3/11/2015)
Unable to rev up voters in November, Kansans now turn to damage control.  (2/13/2015) 
How desperate and foolish is Kansas Governor Sam Brownback?  (2/10/2015)
A Washington Times exercise in myopia.  (1/5/2015)
Dear Governor Brownback, a "real-live experiment" in red-state governance isn't going to reverse a 120-year trajectory.  (12/25/2014)
Dueling Headlines, or, Just because Sam Brownback says it, doesn't mean it's so.  (12/20/2014)
KC Healthy Kids needs to work on its timing.  (12/20/2014) 
Sam Brownback: "The sun is shining in Kansas and don't let anyone tell you different."  (12/11/2014)
Why it's probably best not to be in Kansas anymore.  (12/11/2014)
So....does this make Sam Brownback a liar?  (12/10/2014)
Scott Walker takes his tax cut cues from Sam Brownback.  (11/13/2014)
Scott Walker, Sam Brownback, and Rick Scott: The comeback copycats.  (10/25/2014)
Governors Sam Brownback and Scott Walker use the same playbook.  (9/15/2014)
You don't have to inhale deeply to catch a whiff of Wisconsin here.  (9/15/2014)
It's not a pretty picture for Kansas Governor Sam Brownback.  (7/18/2014)
As Kansas becomes increasingly irrelevant, a goofy sideshow.  (2/14/2014)