Tax Cuts Don’t Work? They Did In This State!

Amazing how quiet they get when conservative principles actually, you know, work.

We've all heard liberals complain about those eeeeeeevil tax cuts for the rich (whatever that's supposed to mean) and that paying more taxes is a patriotic duty (even though most Americans would rather get run over by a truck than pay more taxes than they have to).

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback was attacked relentlessly by liberals last fall during his reelection campaign over his move to cut income taxes in his state. But the funny thing now is, according to Investors Business Daily, that those exact same tax cuts are creating jobs and stimulating Kansas's economy. So much so that companies are worried that there aren't enough workers! From the article –

From the New York Times to the Kansas City Star, Brownback's agenda was denounced as a failure and a warning to others of what happens when you try to ride the Laffer Curve and cut taxes.

 

Here's what you won't read today: The tax cut is working. Labor Department data show job growth in Kansas tied with Utah as the fastest in the nation in February.

 

Back in 2012, Brownback cut the highest income-tax rate from 6.4% to 4.8% with the goal of eventually eliminating the state income tax entirely. The tax on small business income was zeroed out. It was denounced as "trickle-down economics," though the state's unemployment rate is now down to 4.5%.

 

"The number one complaint I'm hearing now," Brownback tells us, "is we can't find the workers. That's a good problem to have."

So next time tax cuts come up in an election and liberals start in on how terrible it is to cut taxes, show them the success in Kansas. It probably won't shut them up (few things do), but it's nice to have yet another real-life example of conservative ideas working.

(h/t Weasel Zippers)