OK, we got the news, Kansas revenues are down about $300 million from estimates in the past two months, and that’s not good for the budget that has just been passed and for the upcoming fiscal year which starts July 1.
And, we have an election-year summer ahead of finger-pointing and casting blame for the massive reduction in state revenues.
Democrats point at Gov. Sam Brownback for his tax cut program. Republicans point at President Barack Obama, who scared the wealthy back in 2012 when he proposed allowing those tasty President George Bush-era tax cuts to expire—but they didn’t.