[DoodleDawg]

Actually, cutting taxes tends to increase revenues...so while spending cuts are good, they do not have to be used to “offset” tax cuts....increased economic growth will offset the cuts.

That doesn't seem to have been the case in states like Kansas or Louisiana. Their tax cuts have led to round after round of spending cuts.

[C. Edmund Wright]

The principle still stands....but nothing happens in a vacuum.....and it’s hard for states to make happen because most taxes are Federal taxes, and the state’s individuals and businesses don’t get any federal cuts just because they get state cuts.

Think: what do businesses do when they want to boost sales? They CUT the price. Taxes are the price of commerce.

[Kanzan]

Kansas has not cut spending, except some in the agencies. The big three; Medicaid, govt worker pensions, and K-12 are still out of control. Legislature too timid to really go after them. The local press lies about this daily. Kansas has not, in any real way, cut spending.