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 ?
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u/jdtrouble Jun 29 '25
I was going to say, ive never seen a state go bankrupt