Screw Kansas’ poor people receiving assistance from Temporary Aid for Needy Families. Gov. Sam Brownback signed draconian restrictions to the program into law last decade, leaving poor families worse off and misleading Kansans about the results.
Screw retirees receiving pensions from the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Legislators could chip away at KPERS’ $9.6 billion in unfunded liabilities with surplus dollars but chose not to. They could give out a cost of living increase, but they haven’t managed that, either.
Screw the folks without health insurance who could benefit from Medicaid expansion. In the nearly 10 years the state has gone without expansion, at least 1,500 people have died as a result. From one estimate, 70 have died this year alone.
But legislators won’t expand Medicaid. Indeed, GOP leadership won’t even allow their colleagues to debate it. They won’t make KPERS whole or pay retirees more or support families in need.
Hey. Charles Koch stood to reap almost $1,000,000 from one early tax cut proposal. God knows where that wound up.