Suicide Pact: How To Cripple Your State in 5 Easy Steps - nationalreview.com:
"It’s not just Texas eating the economic lunch of basket-case states such as California and New York. Kansas City saw about 9,500 new jobs created between May 2012 and May 2013 — every one of them on the Kansas side of the border, where residents and businesses enjoy a significant tax advantage thanks in part to the leadership of Governor Sam Brownback and Kansas conservatives."
Here are the 5 steps talked about in this article:
1. Make work expensive
2. Attack lifetime savings
3. Run up your state's long term liabilities
4. Tax fanciful things
5. Don't just be crazy - be California crazy!
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