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Human Events ran an op-ed written by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, regarding the importance of Kansas’s gubernatorial election.

The genius of Brownback’s 2013 legislation to abolish the income tax over time is that the law now states that each year that state revenue comes in above a two percent increase- and this happens in a normal period of modest growth- all the additional revenue is used to permanently reduce the state personal income tax. Beginning in 2019, after the first round of tax rate reductions are enacted, every year the personal income tax rates will fall until they hit zero. Then the corporate income tax rate will be brought down year by year to zero. Lastly, Kansas has a banking tax that will then be reduced to zero. The tax rates will ratchet down every year there is modest growth in state revenues. Kansas can- and now by law will- fund necessary government expenses out of the revenues from growth over time and use those to replace the personal and business income taxes.

Rachel Stoltzfoos of The Daily Caller wrote an article featuring Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist’s take on the impact of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax cuts.

“He’s actually governed well,” Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “They’ve had strong growth.”

More people are moving into the state than are leaving, thousands of small businesses basically no longer have a corporate income tax, and future budgets will be stronger, he said, which are all steps in the right direction. “In the next ten years, a lot of money will come in through growth and that money will go back to taxpayers, not government unions,” he told The DCNF.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist was interviewed for an article written by HNGN’s Taylor Tyler which delved into Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s campaign.

After tax reductions are enacted, personal income tax rates will fall every year until they hit zero, claims Norquist. “Then the corporate income tax rate will be reduced to zero,” along with the banking tax.

States that follow this plan will be able to “fund necessary government expenses out of the revenues from growth over time and use those to replace the personal and business income tax,” said Norquist, concluding, “if Sam Brownback wins in November watch for more governors who have his courage to challenge anti-reform Republicans in primaries and to phase out their state income taxes.”

James Kilgore of Counterpunch wrote a piece discussing recent conservative support for criminal justice reform.

To top it off, the right wing joined the “softer on crime” fray. Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich sparked a conservative anti-imprisonment drift through their Right on Crime organization which decried the excessive use and cost of punishment. Then Rand Paul followed suit, standing shoulder to shoulder with Cory Booker to back a Redeem Act which would ease criminal penalties for juveniles. In the background a steady stream of popular advocacy combined with legislative and financial re-thinks appeared to be making major inroads into criminal justice orthodoxy. But last week, carceral optimism gave way to a much harsher reality. The Bureau of Justice’s annual statistical report on national prison population revealed that incarceration numbers were up for the first time since 2009. The rise was a mere 0.3% but even this slight uptick may have burst the bubble of the new paradigm.

John Gizzi of Newsmax wrote an article detailing a movement in Tennessee, supported by Americans for Tax Reform’s president Grover Norquist to keep the state from an enacting a state income tax.

“Basically, ‘Three’ is similar to constitutional bans on income taxes in other states, such as Florida,” Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, told Newsmax. “Although Tennessee has no income tax and Republicans hold super-majorities in both houses of the legislature, that will not always be the case.”

“You can’t always count on tradition to protect you. With the Democratic Party so left-wing, if it ever got into a position of political power- even for a short time- it is very possible Democrats could enact an income tax. So you’ve got to have this barrier to protect the taxpayer from the income tax.”