Looks Like Sam Brownback Might be Right – Tax Cuts Boost Employment Growth

Perhaps the most hotly debated topic in taxes over the past couple of years is Kansas' aggressive move to reduce the income and corporate income tax burden.

On Thursday, the Census Bureau released its most recent accounting of state government revenues across all state governments.

The newly released data provides us new data points to inspect whether Sam Brownback's tax cuts have had the intended effect.

Sam Brownback  - Income Tax Revenue by State

First, here's a look at income and corporate income tax revenue growth by state from 2012 to 2014 (2014 is the newly released data).

The chart is sorted by the growth in tax burden by state since 2012.

Unsurprisingly, given the size of the tax savings to income...