Voracious Corporate Greed And Their GQP Lickspittle Lackeys In The Arizona Legislature

Every GQP-controlled Arizona legislature since Republican Gov. J. Fife Symington III has cut corporate income taxes. Even Democratic Gov. Jnet Napolitano went along with this sop to corporations to smooth her reelection effort in 2006. The biggest corporate tax cuts came under Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and just last year under Republican Gov. Doug Ducey. That is … Read more

Former Gov. Jan Brewer Takes Current Gov. Doug Ducey To Task For Fiscally Irresponsible ‘Flat Tax’ Proposal

Oh God, she’s baaack! In 2011, then Governor Jan Brewer signed off on then House Speaker Kirk Adams’ four year phased-in corporate welfare tax giveaway plan, while state revenues were still devastated from the Great Recession (2007-2009). Jan Brewer had initially opposed his plan in 2010 causing “Captain Kool-Aid,” Kirk Adams, a true believer in … Read more

Republicans Are On The Wrong Side Of The American People On Raising Corporate Taxes

So much for the alleged breakup between the Republican Party and newly “woke” corporate America. Republicans are still the servile lickspittle lackeys for the corporatocracy, protecting corporation’s low tax rates. Even though corporations have been demanding an infrastructure bill for years, the catch is that these freeloaders want someone else to pay for it, or … Read more

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley

Big Money Politics Targets the ‘Tucson Progressive’ in 2020 Election (video)

Corporate America, was it something I said? Are you putting tens of thousands of dollars in big money donations behind my pro Trump, pro deregulation, pro tax giveaway, pro privatized insurance, pro Open Up Arizona (and masks are a personal choice) Republican opponent because I told the people of Arizona the truth about tax giveaways? … Read more

Republicans, thanks for the poverty

#COVID19 Shows #AZ that Over Reliance on Sales Tax Is Bad Policy (video)

Since it’s Wednesday, I am wearing red, and today’s video about public education funding. Yesterday, I was filling out an endorsement questionnaire, and one of the questions was: do you support raising sales taxes to pay for public education? This question is so January 2020. When we were in session, there was much discussion about … Read more