If post-America can be restored to its status as the United States of America, Pub governors will deserve much of the credit

Sam Brownback, for instance, has understood how to turn Kansas around:

Last week, the Kansas Department of Labor and 

the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released October 2014 jobs and earnings reports that are sure to galvanize the nationwide push for sensible state tax policy.

In the two years since Kansas’ tax-reform measures went into effect, the promises of Governor Sam Brownback’s administration are becoming a reality. I challenge tax-and-spend naysayers to dispute the following facts: 

1. 8,400 seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs have been added since September;
2. Workers saw their earnings grow by 3.3 percent in a year; and
3. The Sunflower State’s unemployment rate is now 4.4 percent, down from 5.2 percent a year ago.

And this week, even more good news was released. Nine Kansas counties now have an unemployment rate of less than 2 percent. (Rates below 4 percent are considered full employment.) In Wallace County, which now has an unemployment rate below 1.5 percent, just 18 people are unemployed and actively seeking work. Combined, the 20 counties of northwest Kansas have an unemployment rate of just 2.23 percent.

Letting people keep their own money is a good thing.