Arizona Republicans seek to increase the welfare rolls
From yesterday’s East Valley Tribune:
With state finances evaporating, Gov. Jan Brewer is moving to help those with needs get their services from church and nonprofit groups.
In an executive order Tuesday, Brewer created a 20-member task force to coordinate volunteer efforts statewide. The panel also will look for ways to both inform people of the services [...]
I’m sorry, Arizona, but we can’t stupid our way out of this mess either
A commenter to a local RW blog vomited forth this pearl of wisdom:
You can’t tax and spend your way to either a recovery or a balanced budget. jan (sic), please step aside with the other RINO’s and let the fiscal conservatives fix the mess Napolitano made and you continued.
Why are they getting away with [...]
Vernon Parker has some ’splainin to do.
Paradise Valley Mayor and gubernatorial explorer Vernon Parker wrote a letter to Planned Parenthood director Bryan Howard. Parker annoyed the good folks over at PP when he lashed out at Gov. Brewer for attending a fundraiser held by “a prominent Planned Parenthood leader” and got a flood of messages by PP supporters criticizing him [...]
Because being the 7th most regessively taxed state just isn’t good enough.
The brain trust of trickle down true believers who run AZ are still proposing tax cuts as the magical cure for our woes. In addition to the tax cuts on businesses, GOP legislators are calling for yet another cut in income taxes and the permanent repeal of the state property equalization tax. And [...]
AZ Chamber of Commerce: “Taxes are for little people”
Yesterday’s statement by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry reminds me of this unintentionally funny Craigslist job announcement: “Sleep til Noon! Seeking Motivated Achievers!”
The Chamber’s legislative agenda for 2010 includes, wait for it, tax cuts for businesses. But they also want to go after Clean Elections funding because:
And [...]
Much as I dislike the DINO anti-choicer, and his egregious toupee, I have to admit we could use a Ben Nelson here
Per an AP article about the Senate Conference deliberations earlier this evening:
…Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts. These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states. In the case of Nebraska — represented by Sen. Ben Nelson, who’s providing the critical 60th vote for the legislation to pass — the federal [...]
GOP legislators’ cowardly backdoor effort to circumvent Prop 108.
I’m talking the one passed in 1992 that requires a 2/3 majority of votes to raise revenue. Both the sales tax referendum and the one to undo 1998’s voter protection act are nothing more than attempts by those yellow-bellied morons to raise revenue without having to, you know, vote on it themselves and displease [...]