Tax Cut Fairies

Fred Hiatt's crayon scribble page notices that Brownback is making a dog's breakfast out of Kansas, but they still cling to the fantasy that the tax cut fairies might just exist, and of course there are cuts, just not THOSE cuts, that can be made.

Other Republican-led states have embarked on tax-cutting programs. But few if any have done so without a fail-safe designed to protect essential state services, such as mechanisms that would abort tax cuts if revenue drops, or allow them only after revenue rises.

I think "fail-safe designed to protect essential state services" is code for "not voting to cut essential state services."