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ELI5: What happened to Kansas' trickle-down experiment, and where did it fail/succeed?

Why did they cut so much from the education budget?

Why did they lay off so many people?

Did they succeed anywhere?
gpt
Kansas collected nearly $45 million less in taxes in September than expected, this is bad, and it nuked their state budget.

State government now faces a shortfall greater than $60 million, just one quarter into the fiscal year.  Sometimes the shortfall is small — $10.5 million in August. In other months, the numbers are staggering: May fell $76 million below expectations.

Individual income tax collections were off by about $14 million, or 6 percent. The Kansas Department of Revenue cited weaker than expected quarterly payments related to capital gains and the stock market in explaining the figures.  Corporate income taxes came in short by $17 million, or 21 percent. Retail sales tax collections fell short by $9 million, or about 5 percent.

The approximately $45 million monthly shortfall represents a miss of about 8 percent. All the other layoffs and the like are because they are doing 8% more government than they have money for.