He's referring to things like how Brownback repeatedly cut public school funding, to play for his "Make Kansas desirable for big businesses!!" tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/politics/education-is-newest-target-of-kansas-budget-cuts.htmlEducation is always high on the list of things to get cut back when republican governors and state legislators rule the roost.
Kansas is not unique in this kind of mess either. We just did the full-scale experiment that Republicans have been wanting to do nationally, and it had disastrous results. Turns out, giving the wealthy and big businesses lots of tax breaks, just incentivizes them to buy back stocks, and then funnel money into offshore accounts, rather than the intended stimulus to the economy, since those parties are **NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN INVESTMENT BACK INTO THE LOCAL ECONOMY**.
If done on a national scale, the big international corporations (like Walmart and pals), would just offshore their holdings en-mass into foreign tax havens, like Ireland.
This is why the correct response is tax breaks for the low and middle class, who spend all their money domestically-- while taxing the big corporations and the wealthy-- forcing them to have to re-appropriate some of those funds they have ratholed back.
Doing so would have ACTUAL stimulus to the economy, because people would be buying things with the money that would otherwise have gone to taxes. The state coffers should not suffer the shortfall, because the big businesses are on the hook for the bill.
The great lie, is that taxcuts for the wealthy and large businesses produce economic booms. Look at my state, with Brownback's experiment--- It clearly demonstrates how it is a lie.
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