The Kansas Budget

Welcome to the Kansas Budget blog. Author Duane Goossen writes and speaks about the Kansas budget and state finances as a Senior Fellow with the Kansas Center for Economic Growth (KCEG). He is a former Kansas Budget Director (1998-2010), and former 7-term member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1983-1997). New blog entries are first published by KCEG and later re-posted here. Duane welcomes your inquiries: duanegoossen@gmail.com

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Fixing Kansas, Step Two

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By  Duane Goossen To release Kansas from the financially troubled Brownback years, state legislators first had to reverse the governor...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Can't Kick Kansas Around Anymore

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By  Duane Goossen Hello United States. Hello from Kansas. It appears that Congress and the President are about to enact a Kansas-sty...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Congressional Republicans Repeat the Kansas Mistake

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By  Duane Goossen Congressional Republicans have released their "tax reform" plan. Words flow from their summary sheet like ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Kansas Tax Roller Coaster

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By  Duane Goossen Kansans, we have been riding an income tax roller coaster! In 2012 the "Kansas experiment" brought lowere...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Revenue Reset

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By  Duane Goossen Gov. Brownback’s tax experiment brought havoc to the Kansas budget, and put the state’s general fund in severe financi...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Make the Medicaid Ticker Stop

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By  Duane Goossen Kansas topped $1 billion in forfeited federal funds early in 2016. But the clock kept ticking. Now losses hav...
Friday, July 28, 2017

The Tall Tale Being Told In Kansas

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By  Duane Goossen The recently overturned Kansas tax experiment was sold to Kansans with a tall tale: “Big income tax cuts bring econ...
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