People criticizing the economy of Kansas need to compare it with Illinois, where high taxes on everything are driving business from that state! In his campaign for governor, Paul Davis repeatedly states that “Brownback’s real, live experiment has failed.”

However, as people are taking a closer look at the facts, they are actually finding a success story. In late 2012, Kansas had the second-highest tax burden in the region. The reserve fund was depleted, a $500 million deficit projected. With Brownback’s flatter, simpler tax, we saw state taxes reduced from 6.45% to 4.9% and small businesses finding relief with elimination of income tax.

Wealth of States co-author Stephen Moore has examined Brownback’s plan to stimulate growth and create jobs and compared it with Illinois, which enacted their largest ever tax increase in 2011. Kansas this past fiscal year experienced a 1.13 percent increase in private sector employment, growing 0.78%--72% higher than Illinois’ 0.46%. Our real gross domestic product increased 1.9 percent--the national average being 1.8% and Illinois less than 1%.

Paul Davis and others arguing for big government fail to point out that the Illinois credit rating has been downgraded nine times, not once. They end this year with a $4 billion debt, while Kansas ends with a $435 million cash balance. Brownback’s budget director Shawn Sullivan states, “There are a lot of prognostications that the sky is falling with the Kansas budget, and I am here to say that, that is not correct. The economy will grow.”

On October 15, 2014, in a televised debate between Sen. Pat Roberts and Greg Orman, the definition of Orman, the man, was made public in his own words. When asked by reporters to clarify his stance, he stated, “I am pro-abortion.” It was a rather shocking admission; most politicians want to step away from that term and take the gentler approach that they are for “a woman’s right to choose.” Being pro-abortion carries a heavier weight of support for an industry whose dark side is increasingly being made public.

In 2011, the city of West Philadelphia was shocked to learn of unspeakable horrors in the clinic of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. He is now serving a prison sentence for three counts of first degree murder, infanticide, and hundreds more violations. Former Gov. Kathleen Sibelius supported the industry in Kansas, including Tiller’s late-term abortions. When Central Women’s Services—a run-down, filthy abortion clinic near Wesley hospital—was purchased in 2006, new owners spent a year clearing blood-spattered, reeking contents, and sandblasting it before rebuilding.

Before voting to put someone new in Washington consider this: When Orman says he’s the “Independent voice,” he is misleading us. He ran against Roberts in 2008 as a Democrat; he’s given heavily to President Obama and obstructionist Sen. Harry Reid. He approves of everything abortion—allowing late term abortions, denying restrictions based on proven fetal pain, denying parental consent for minors, and not requiring clinics to be inspected: Things 70 percent of Americans detest about abortion!