in february 2017, a bi-partisan group wrote a bill that would repeal the pass-through income exemption, the "most important provisions of brownback's overhaul", and raise taxes to make up for the budget shortfall. brownback vetoed the bill but "45 gop legislators had voted in favor of the increase, while 40 voted to uphold the governor's veto." on june 6, 2017 a group of democrats and newly elected republicans overrode brownback's veto. they increased taxes to an amount that is close to what it was before 2013. brownback's tax plan was described in a june 2017 article in "the atlantic" as the united states' "most aggressive experiment in conservative economic policy". the tax cuts had made schools and infrastructure difficult to get funding in kansas.