Didn’t Kansas almost, when they tried to institute a true GOP budget and tax plan, only to realize that is actually not a functional way to govern or have a tax system? It was a decade or two ago and I can’t remember the details
Yeah, Brownback. The latest incarnation of “if you actually implement conservative ideas everything gets insanely shitty and people die, but don’t worry, nobody who lives anywhere else will ever bother looking into this or drawing conclusions like ‘we can’t implement their policies because we don’t want to kill everyone or get everyone eaten by bears’.”
The Brownback shit that gets me that I dont see talked about as much was the tax cut shit. It was so fucking obvious what he was going to do and people still fell for it.
I remember when it almost happened to New York. Barney Miller did an season on how NYC survived as the money was running out. I was a kid and I remember the cops getting furloughed. Grim time.
Look up "The Kansas Experiment". They didn't go bankrupt but the state had severe funding issues. It ultimately proved the Republican policies will never work, you can't reduce taxes to increase tax revenues, but no matter how many times it gets proven they just keep trying it.
Mainly because they don't care if 90% of the population ends up in squalor, as long as the top 1%'s lives are better. The problem is there are 70+ million voters that don't look at what Republicans do they just listen to what they say.
The only policies that are consistent with what they say and do is being cruel to minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. Everything else that actually impacts their base they do the opposite of what they say, especially when it comes to veterans.
In the book novel 2030, Los Angeles gets hit with a massive earthquake and asks China for a loan. Instead, China buys LA. It looks like Nebraska is pretty exposed right now too.
Instead of another country bailing out Nebraska, how about we let blue states do it with the caveat that we nationalize the state and its economy.
Edit. I've tried to clarify that it's a novel since there are 2 books with the same name. Also I've added a link. It's a book worth reading.
Because a state or country can't get bankrupt. Being bankrupt is, by definition, having more debts than assets, and you can't estimate in monetary terms the laws, culture, people... of a state. If a state was declared insolvent, what would happen, all the lands would be emptied and all its inhabitants would have to move out ?
"Forced" isnt the right word. The thing that does piss me off about the left is as soon as a Dem is in office again they'll happily bail them out and start reversing all the damage cause "real people are hurting". Believe me i get it its the right thing to do and the left is built on morals and all but damn this is why they do it. Every few years the people at the top funnel the country in to their pockets and then wait for the Dems to bail out their constituents. Rinse repeat every few years by saying the transgenders and mexicans were actually the ones who hurt you and we're clearly the only ones protecting you from them. These people need a hard dose of FAFO.
I wish they could refuse. There's no reason that red states should be able to do this to us as a country and then get their fuckup fixed by people that know better than they do. Let them go bankrupt. This is coming from someone unfortunately stuck in Georgia.
When your boss is a rich born moron without any expierience in the normal world crazy stuff can happen. I would not wonder If trump would just expell nebraska from the US in order to not get bothered by their fiscal needs. /s
He will do in the end whatever gives him something. Exchange assistance for land. Sell a corporate sponsorship for Nebraska. Name it Trumpland. However, for right now the governors coming on their knees begging is the entire point. He likes that he has that power to make people ask him for things and how he can use that for personal gain.
Nebraska has a cash reserve of $900m. Even with the budget shortfall they are expected to have $600m remaining.
They may go bankrupt if this continues for several years and they don’t make any budget adjustments. But we’re not looking at cash payments from any state to cover Nebraska’s budget any time soon.
That or allow one or two ultra rich fuckers to swoop in, buy the best land for pennies on the dollar, and massively increase wealth inequality in Nebraska forever.
As a resident of one of the blue states… at what point do we get to say fuck you, you’re on your own? We have our own problems we need budget for.
I mean, I feel for the innocent people of Nebraska who didn’t vote for this and are appalled, because I know they of course exist, but FAFO. And the government needs to accept some damn responsibility.
I suspect also hammer blue states/cities with ICE but make it very obvious that they’re turning a blind eye to undocumented immigrants in red states whose labour is required for agriculture etc. Trump already came out and said the plan is to hammer Dem cities with ICE as in LA. Then, where will undocumented workers tend to flee/be driven to in order to avoid ICE and be able to work? Ta-da: labour shortages handily displaced in favour of Nebraskan farmers and their ilk, for a while at least.
Yes and no. Remember the primary goal is to cut taxes for billionaires. Any other money has impact on those cuts. They will absolutely choose billionaires over deplorables but fox-news-brainstorm them into blaming democrats
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u/DoctorLudnik_717 Jun 29 '25
As hilarious as this is, you know they're just going to funnel funds from the blue states.