Teach Brownback how to bet

Sam Brownback needs learn that BCG is approved for sale in the US and that it may be administered in his State and that it may treat autoimmune diseases safely and inexpensively and thus save suffering and money.


Measles Man says read and Sam says yes sir.
1. pubmed.org faustman dl
2. pubmed.org ristori + BCG
3. faustmanlab.org

The chances of being infected with multi drug resistant TB are greatly diminished by BCG which is used all over the world. The immune system modifying amounts and frequency are as yet to be precisely determined with respect to autoimmune diseases.


I will be glad to demonstrate the effect of BCG on plaque psoriasis.  I hope not to have to travel abroad to get decent healthcare.

Shoot BCG  Sam. It will help prevent tax increases.

If you want to go for the gusto, simply have Kansas buy Faustman's peptide for preventing autoimmune diseases in newborns etc.




Review & Outlook
Brownback’s Tax Lesson
Why Brownback backtracked on his tax-cut schedule.
Jan. 29, 2015 7:12 p.m. ET
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After surviving a liberal blitzkrieg, re-elected Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is now getting whipsawed for scaling back his tax cuts to defuse an exploding budget deficit. The real story is how unchecked spending, especially entitlements, can undermine tax reform.

Liberals made Mr. Brownback a particular political target last fall because he aggressively cut taxes and pitched his effort as part of a “red-state model” of conservative governance. Democrats lost the election but they are now inhaling schadenfreude after the Republican Governor’s budget proposal this month puts the brakes on his 2012 income tax cuts and raises taxes on tobacco and alcohol.
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Photo: Associated Press

Income tax receipts have fallen short of the state projections from last summer, turning a $380 million budget reserve into a two-year $700 million hole. Liberals claim the shortfall is proof that tax reform is a sham, but Mr. Brownback never claimed his plan would be instant Miracle Gro for public coffers.
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His plan was to gradually cut income tax rates to improve the state’s relative economic performance, which has lagged its neighbors. The top rate for individuals earning more than $15,000 has fallen to 4.6% from 6.45% and to 2.7% from 3.5% for those making less. These rates are supposed to decline to 3.9% and 2.3%, respectively, by 2018. But revenue losses have been especially acute because the tax on small business income was zeroed out.

The Governor had originally proposed a revenue neutral plan that maintained a higher sales tax, eliminated itemized deductions and capped spending increases at 2%. Yet liberals insisted on partially rolling back former Democratic Governor Mark Parkinson ’s 2010 sales tax increase, and moderate Republicans balked at closing loopholes.

The Governor’s budget blueprint for the 2016 fiscal year hews to his original plan that relied more heavily on consumption taxes. The excise tax on cigarettes would increase by $1.50 per pack and to 12% from 8% on liquor. So-called “sin” taxes rarely throw off as much revenue as hoped, though they’re less destructive than taxes on income. Mr. Brownback also wants to accelerate a 50% phase out of itemized deductions.

But what’s driving both liberal and conservative critics is the Governor’s proposal to suspend further income tax rate reductions unless revenues increase by at least 3% from the prior year. His Democratic opponent Paul Davis suggested something similar last fall. Mr. Brownback feels he has no choice but to slow tax reform because of spending pressures from Medicaid, schools and pensions.

State spending on Medicaid and K-12 education between 2012 and 2015 has increased by $182 million and $312 million, respectively, while all other budget expenditures have fallen by $243 million. Meantime, the state’s contribution for teacher pensions, which has nearly doubled to $448 million from $249 million in 2010, continues to grow.

Washington limits the Governor’s ability to rein in Medicaid costs, and schools have received annual spending bumps. Perversely, the more local school districts raise property taxes, the more they’re owed from the state. Despite this automatic spending escalator, student test scores have hardly budged over the last decade.

In his budget, Mr. Brownback belatedly suggests that legislators consider modifying worker pensions and the state school-funding formula. The Governor’s major blunder was assuming that reduced revenues would induce lawmakers to scale back entitlements. The opposite has occurred: Higher spending on pensions, schools and Medicaid have caused the Governor to retrench on taxes.

As Steve Moore describes nearby, Republican governors across the country are still making tax cuts a priority, despite the claims by some of our liberal friends that Mr. Brownback’s travails have shut them down. The difference is that some of them are moving more cautiously than they might if the economy were growing faster and revenues were rising. The real moral of Mr. Brownback’s unfortunate story is that lower tax rates are hard to sustain without either faster economic growth or restraints on government.