Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback celebrates being stingy with health care in State of the State address

The big question in the runup to Gov. Sam Brownback’s State of the State speech Tuesday night was whether he would even address the state’s humongous budget deficit.

Well, yes, he did. He even hinted at a few measures that will be included in his budget proposal, to be unveiled on Wednesday. And that proposal, Brownback emphasized, will be balanced. In fact, he repeatedly pronounced that that word — with emphasis, as though folks in these parts had never heard it before.

“This budget is balanced,” Brownback said, as elected officials and guests sat in rapt attention in the Capitol in Topeka. “Balanced in that it reconciles spending with available revenue. Balanced in that it addresses both sides of the ledger, revenue and expenditure.”

Only in Kansas would a governor with six years in office find it necessary to define a balanced budget in such detail.

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