Tax cuts are LONG TERM fixes, not short term fixes. They take time and that's what's being whined about. People want their microwave solution that will fall apart at the first sign of trouble, instead of waiting while the slow cooker solution brings about real long term, sustainable results. Like the Reagan tax cuts that gave us both the 1st Bush and Clinton economies.
We had 3 major tax increases between the original Reagan tax cuts and the Clinton economic boom.
YEs, I know you have 4.098 links to people who will tell you differently, but the fact is that tax cuts help the economy WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED TO STAY IN PLACE LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE FULL EFFECT.
I live on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro. Our state's taxes were never high. They were competitive before the Brownback tax cuts. This is not California or Massachusetts here. This is the red state of Kansas. It has never had high taxes or big government programs. The main things the state government does is public education, public safety, and infrastructure. That is just about all the state's government has ever done. Prior to the Brownback tax cuts our taxes were about the same as they are in neighboring states (which all have fairly low state taxes as well). If you start with fairly low taxes, then you are not going to get some big economic miracle by cutting them to such a level that they are insufficient to fund the state's already modest fiscal obligations. After all, if tax cuts always lead to additional revenue and an economic boom, then why have taxes at all? We could have a tax rate of less than 1% then and the boom in economic growth resulting from such low taxes would lead to additional revenue.... that is if what your saying always happens, but I would imagine even you would understand that there are limits to such a notion.
People don't just come to a state for low taxes, quality of life is a huge factor as well. The taxes one the Missouri side were about the same as the Kansas side, so when someone moved to the Kansas side of the metro, they usually did so for quality of life reasons like the schools. Thus when taxes are too low to fund the school systems, then people are less apt to move to the Kansas side because they are concerned that the schools will not keep up with other parts of the metro. This is why since Brownback came into office Johnson County Kansas is no longer the fastest growing part of the metro (even though it was for decades). Now its Cass County which is North of the river on the Missouri side.
Furthermore, its just plain stupid to cut your state's income tax rates to a lower level than the neighboring state (which has low taxes to start with), when much of your state's population lives if your state but works in the neighboring state. For example, we live on the Kansas side of the metro, but both my wife and I work in Missouri. Prior to Brownback's cuts, we would end up paying some state income taxes to both Missouri and Kansas. Now, we are still paying income taxes to Missouri because that is where we work, but we pay no state income taxes at all to Kansas. You can't run a state like that when much of your state's population lives on or near the state line. Moreover, they are talking about bumping up sales taxes to make up for the shortfall in state income taxes which will be very easy to avoid by simply driving 2 miles to Missouri and shopping there.
Meanwhile, fees on everything has gone way up. We 3 kids in school and its now costing about 600 dollars to get them registered for school every year in fees. Hell even fishing licenses have gone up and now its cheaper to buy an out of state one for the Missouri side rather than a resident permit for Kansas. Our government's experiment has been an abject failure and Missouri has benefited greatly from his fiscal incompetence.