{"id":7918,"date":"2017-06-08T18:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2024-01-15T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:00:58","slug":"ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7918","title":{"rendered":"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Stierbrownback-blog427.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Stierbrownback-blog427.jpg?resize=322%2C329&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Stierbrownback-blog427.jpg?w=427&amp;ssl=1 427w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Stierbrownback-blog427.jpg?resize=147%2C150&amp;ssl=1 147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Sam Brownback became governor of Kansas in 2010 just as Tom Corbett became governor of Pennsylvania. Brownback and Corbett, with the help of Republican majorities in their legislatures, embarked on an extremist Wizard of Oz economic agenda of cutting taxes, especially for large businesses, and reducing spending on education and human services. Spending as a share of the state\u2019s economy dropped by 10% in our state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Faced with slow economic growth, stark budget deficits, and citizens who were demanding better public services,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2rV2Lbq?link_id=0&amp;can_id=6dc4bac9c6a1a6d41211758bd136aac2&amp;source=email-press-memo-the-new-iteration-of-the-us-house-gop-health-care-plan-2-2&amp;email_referrer=press-memo-the-new-iteration-of-the-us-house-gop-health-care-plan-2-2&amp;email_subject=press-memo-kansas-as-a-case-study-for-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bi-partisan majority in the legislature in Kansas this week stood up<\/a>\u00a0for common sense against Wizard of Oz extremism and, over Brownback\u2019s veto, rolled back many of those tax cuts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is this the year that state legislators in Pennsylvania also embrace common sense and reject extremism?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Brownback became governor of Kansas in 2010 just as Tom Corbett became governor of Pennsylvania. Brownback and Corbett, with the help of Republican majorities in their legislatures, embarked on an extremist Wizard of Oz economic agenda of cutting taxes, especially for large businesses, and reducing spending on education and human services. Spending as a share of the state\u2019s economy dropped by 10% in our state. Faced with slow economic growth, stark budget deficits, and citizens who were demanding better public services,\u00a0a bi-partisan majority in the legislature in Kansas this week stood up\u00a0for common sense against Wizard of Oz extremism and, over Brownback\u2019s veto, rolled back many of those tax cuts. Is this the year that state legislators in Pennsylvania also embrace common sense and reject extremism? &nbsp; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7918\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[197,205,65,54],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Stierbrownback-blog427.jpg?fit=427%2C436&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-23I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}