Down goes Kansas?

Okay, this is not the end of Kansas, but it's pretty frickin' bad:

(Via Calculated Risk)

Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll

Income tax refunds and state employee paychecks could be late after Republican leaders and the Democratic governor clashed Monday over how to solve a cash-flow problem.

Payments to Medicaid providers and schools also could be delayed.

"We are out of cash, in essence," state budget director Duane Goossen said.

Missing payroll is one of those unthinkables - suspending tax refunds doubly so.

And Medicare and schools...?

Let's hope this is just posturing by the political types (who can then get destroyed) - because if this is the real situation - gonna be a lot of pissed people in Kansas.