Talk:Kansas experiment

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Results/outcomes
This page, should really have a results/outcome section that note the economic results of this 'experiment'. It would be really useful as a source for supply-side economics evidence .. I just don't actually know what the results were. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdb23b (talk • contribs) 15:15, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Suggestions for Improvement
Overall I think this page contains good information, but please let me offer some improvements. First, the section "Benefit for State Lawmakers", while an interesting little tidbit, is not relevant. This has nothing to do with the actual content of this Bill and comes from a very partisan place, I would recommend removing this section. Second, this article is not neutral enough. There are a lot of pseudo-factual statements like "job growth has lagged behind its neighbors" and "revenue is less than projected" but the actual figures of job growth, revenue, and other relevant factors are not present. I would recommend replacing these types of statements with actual comparative figures of Kansas revenue, and job growth to other states and let readers draw their own conclusions. Third, most of the sources cited in this article are from news outlets, and many of those are editorials. We should not cite opinion articles as sources on Wikipedia, there should be either State or academic figures that are available to cite in these cases. Figures like what the projected versus the actual revenue was would be an improvement. Overall, the anti-tax-cut view is significantly overrepresented in this article. And finally, the figures that are used on this page are a few years old now. We should add figures from the last couple of years to guide to evolution of this page. --AhellierUCSD (talk) 04:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

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change emphasis and maybe title
Now that years have passed and the bill has essentially been repealed I propose we change the article to give it a broader focus and perhaps change the title to something like "The Kansas Experiment". I am going to rewrite the article along these lines. --BoogaLouie (talk) 23:31, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Have updated and rewritten the article.

One note: I have used a lot of quotations in the article This is in part because this is a controversial topic and I hope that by making the wording used by the sources exact I will make the issue that much less controversial. --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:30, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

NPV?
While my personal politics (which lean progressive) might agree with the gist of this article, it feels like a hit piece or a morality play, where even in the opening paragraphs of the article one senses the Kansas conservatives will be shown to be dolts.

It's a very classy and well-documented hit piece, though, as one might find in The Atlantic or The Economist.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

Ummm, drop the tone, keep the research. 206.214.237.137 (talk) 03:40, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Signed in now. The comments above are mine. Esnickell2 (talk) 03:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)