Sam Brownback cuts taxes of aspiring seed salespeople

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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback lapsed into truthiness as he touted his plan to re-people population-shedding areas of Kansas by offering tax breaks. Brownback said he is convinced that Kansas is losing residents to states that have no income taxes, although, as the Associated Press pointed out, it’s more of a feeling than a fact.

Brownback signed the bill into law amid skepticism that tax breaks and student-loan forgiveness are going to attract settlers to rural Kansas. (What’s the point of low income taxes, after all, if the career opportunities end at seed sales?) There’s also new evidence that tax rates don’t affect migration patterns.