[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 181 (Tuesday, November 7, 2017)]
[House]
[Pages H8582-H8583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             LET'S LEARN FROM KANSAS, NOT BECOME KANSAS 2.0

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

[[Page H8583]]

minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, what happens if Congress goes nuts on tax 
cuts without paying for them?
  Kansas, which did just that, has now had to raise State taxes back to 
where they were, providing a valuable object lesson for Congress right 
now: tax cuts about ideology, not economics, do not work.
  Yet Republicans seem to be taking a page out of the Kansas tax cuts, 
authored by Governor Sam Brownback, that crushed that State's economy.
  He promised tens of thousands of jobs to fund the State's schools. He 
guaranteed a progrowth economy that would pay for the tax cuts and then 
some.
  Kansas did grow initially, but then lagged behind all the rest of the 
States. Now Brownback's tax cuts have produced new taxes for Kansas.
  Let's learn from Kansas, not become Kansas 2.0.

                          ____________________