So there was this poor guy, and then there was this other guy in Paradise Valley.
Zelph alerted me to my name being mentioned on a popular AZ conservative blog. Sorry, but I don’t link to them so find it on your own. The blogger complained that Democrats propose tax increases on the poor to pay for the services that the less-poor and the middle class people use. [...]
The 2010 Arizona Republican Medicaid Expansion Act.
Do you think sponsors of a bill and a referendum to lower the minimum wage for workers up to age 22 are thinking about unintended consequences?
Assuming the lege or the voters pass a measure that would allow employers to pay 16 to 21 year olds $5.44, that means that there could potentially be thousands of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Soooo…Goldwater Institute, ya going to do anything about DiCiccio’s conflict of interest on the 202?
GI had much to say about the expensive construction of a new court complex for Maricopa County:
Newly elected Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio has development leases along the proposed 202 freeway route. He, and others, think he should have a seat at the table. What say you about that, Goldwater Institute?
To put [...]
Tuesday Energy Blogging apropos of the President’s speech.
From the 1998 Congressional record:
At Unocal, we believe that the central factor in planning these pipelines should be the location of the future energy markets that are most likely to need these new supplies. Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union are all slow growth markets [...]
So where is it in the Arizona Constitution that running a corporation here is supposed to be as “nearly free as possible”?
I haven’t seen that clause, have you? There is much written into our state’s founding document on education. The Arizona Constitution established a mandate for public higher education in the state – instruction be “as nearly free as possible.” It also stipulates that “the legislature shall make such appropriations, to be met [...]