Brownback's 5-Year Budget Projects Big Surpluses

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Steven J. Anderson, the Kansas budget director, unveiled a ground- breaking budget Thursday that projected surpluses growing steadily through fiscal year 2018, but some senators on the Ways and Means Committee expressed skepticism.

In presenting Gov. Sam Brownback's 2013 budget report to the committee, Anderson emphasized that Kansas is the first state to provide a five-year projection, as recommended by the Government Accounting Standards Board. He said the long-term view would help the state prepare for the future.

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Brownback's 5-Year Budget Projects Big Surpluses

"What I like to say is, if you're always walking and looking at your feet, you might run into a wall," Anderson said, an hour after using the same analogy in the House Appropriations Commit...

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