by David Safier
Daniel Scarpinato, recently of Paton campaign fame infamy, is now the communications guy for the Arizona House Republicans. And today, he came out with a classic Scarp. It's Scarpiosity at its finest.
In a News Release, he's writing triumphantly about the House passing the $500 million-plus in tax breaks for business. Here's my favorite line:
This significant and historic bill represents the largest tax cut in Arizona history.
What can you say? Words [almost] fail me. The Scarpster is celebrating a huge tax cut that goes, not to the people of Arizona, but to corporations. He makes it sound like we're all going to be paying less in taxes instead of making up for their property tax cuts with hikes of our own and suffering through more cuts in education and a host of other government services.
Here is an almost equally wonderful quote from Kirk Adams, which, of course, was really written by Scarpinato, so I'm giving him credit.
“With passage of the Jobs Bill, we are putting our confidence in the private sector and hard-working Arizonans rather than in government. As our federal government has demonstrated, spending more on government doesn’t create jobs.”
Nope, government spending doesn't create jobs. All those people working on the highways? Not jobs. The people delivering our mail and working at the DMVs and all kinds of places like that? Not jobs. The federal stimulus checks Brewer passes out, taking credit for all the jobs they're going to create? Not jobs. And I guess, by Adams' reckoning, both he and Scarpinato are out of work. Unless, of course, they're getting government salaries for their not-jobs.