Do economic conditions demand diminished rights?
Just in case you thought your schools and social services, public safety and highways had too much money, Representative Steve Brunk (R-Bel Aire) is urging fellow legislators to get on board the newest constitutional amendment to cut funding off to as many services as possible. Called, the REAL Act, this constitutional amendment in House Concurrent Resolution 5019, would limit increases in state spending based on a level set just after the federal stimulus money goes away, set up a “rainy day fund” and an emergency fund to store money away (isn’t that just what Brunk’s friends in Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute attacked schools and state agencies for doing?), requires a 2/3 majority vote to raise taxes (a simple majority to cut them), and prohibits the state from keeping revenue raised during good economic times. REAL, by the way, stands for “Revenue, Expenditure and Assessment Limitation.” It might better be called “Reducing Everything by Abdicating Leadership
