Kansas Disaster Trickles Down To Its Roads

The disaster that is Kansas just keeps on growing and growing. It is now estimated that as much as $2 billion has been diverted from the Kansas Department of Transportation in order to help Kansas plug holes in its budget that the extreme experiment in supply-side economics has created under Governor Sam Brownback. This is equivalent tone year’s worth of road funding for a state that has the fourth largest amount of public roads in the nation. This just adds to Kansas’ woes that include brutal education cuts and a ratings downgrade that will raise the states borrowing costs, all in the name of tax cut ideology. Rural roads in Kansas were already in egregious shape, causing traffic fatalities at nearly four times the rate as other roads in the state, and these reductions will only make things worse in the coming years.