You been reading the news? Brownback's trickle down experiment isn't working out.
No, what you have the NYT, HuffPo and others getting the vapors because the bureaucrats issued a report "recommending" where the budget needed to by cut (if only cuts were made and no tax increases) that call for the sale of widows and orphans, along with closing every school.
Which is the typical bureaucrat response to every attempt to cut a government budget. "Wellllllllllllllll, you could do that but we'll have to start putting old people on iceflows in the winter and turn school kids into soylent green during the school year.
Why is the State involved in Education? Should that be under local control ? With those taxpayers determining who much they should spend for K-12 education? Same with higher ed. Shut off the "free money" taps (both grants to schools, and loans to students) and watch demand drop and prices also (We have a skills gap in this country, too many overeducated idiots who could contribute to society if we didn't have this "Everyone goes to college" bushwa.)
Here in Illinois, we haven't had a budget, or a state government for that matter, for over 2 years. If the MSM didn't keep beating the "Gov Rauner is making the sky fall !!!" everyday, no one would notice. Roads suck just as much as they did 3 years ago, we still have cops, fire departments (Town next door is all volunteer), schools are open. Only the Chicago Public Schools are doing the "We'll run out of money 3-4 weeks before the beginning of summer vacation" rain dance, but outside of Chicago, the consensus is pretty much "Good. Do it." If anything there is probably less graft and corruption* simply because there's no money to steal.
Counties, Towns, Villages, et al. have had to tighten their belts and learn to do with less. In my county bureaucrat headcount has shrunk through attrition. No one notices.
There aren't any mass die-offs in the streets. The ER at the local hospital is just as packed with illegal aliens with the cold and flu as it has been in years past (maybe a bit moreso, since Illinois went full retard on the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion. That's a ticking budget timebomb...) Trash got picked up today, traffic lights continue to work, and life goes on. Proving that State government is pretty much farking useless and worthless. Other than causing some consternation and hand wringing as bureaucrats will have to sharpen their pencils, I hope Brownbeck holds the course and shrinks the .gov.
All this fear and panic in Kansas sounds like the smoke and mirrors we get here.
*- Chicago being the exception, simply because they are not totally broke yet, so there is still money to steal.