In his Oct. 5, Great Bend Tribune public forum letter, Dave Trabert, CEO of the Kansas Policy Institute, claims the problem with the Brownback 2012 income tax cut fiscal train wreck was that expenditures were not cut. In his book of 227 footnotes and 164 pages, he omitted that to make his claim true, the 2012 budget would have had to have been cut 13 percent for 2013. Then as student populations and costs increased, it would have had to remain frozen for another six years through 2019, and likely beyond. Trabert offers no explanation of how could this have happened without harming education and public works. Not one word. Welcome to the deceive by omission, false reality world of the KPI. The last chapter of the book describes Trabert’s approach to his role as a professional propagandist. It includes statements such as: Truth is irrelevant. Restructure... perceptions to create the position you desire. Messaging must be... relentless.