Flat Tax Forum hosted by Sen Paula Aboud Monday, Sept. 12
by David Safier From the announcement: Advertisement If you think the idea of a flat tax on income is a good idea because it sounds simple and fair, come to this forum and learn what it will really mean to Arizona taxpayers if it passes in 2012. For example, the taxes on 8 out of … Read more
A few passages about for-profit colleges
by David Safier The recent issue of the Washington Monthly is devoted to higher education. One of the stories,The College For-profits Should Fear, is about the nonprofit Western Governors University, which I knew nothing about. Interesting read. One of the most interesting sections was about for-profit colleges. First sit down, then read this passage about … Read more
ALEC and the Arizona legislature: anti-Affirmative Action Initiative
by David Safier In 2010, Prop 107, whose purpose was to end affirmative action in Arizona's schools, public employment and public contracting, was passed by the voters. The proposition has a long history which began in California in 1996, made its way into ALEC's model legislation database, passed in Washington, Michigan and Nebraska, and came … Read more
For-profit colleges eat students for lunch
by David Safier Here we go again: another chain of for-profit colleges in trouble. This time it's Career Education Corp.'s California Culinary Academy in San Francisco: Under a pending $40 million settlement in state court, Career Education has agreed to offer rebates of up to $20,000 to 8,500 students who attended the academy between 2003 … Read more
What’s next – concentration camps for the unemployed and poor?
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I read two articles this weekend that could be harbingers of the Tea-Publican tyranny to come. At a time when we are in a New Gilded Age of wealth concentrated in the hands of a very few über-rich plutocrats, the greatest income disparity since just before the Crash of 1929, inequality.org, the … Read more
Please, just stop the ridiculous point/counterpoint opinions in the Star
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In recent weeks the Arizona Daily Star has taken to publishing a point/counterpoint series of opinions on Monday from McClatchy News. These opinions are invariably written by think tanks or politicians with an agenda and a partisan axe to grind. There is very little factual content and even less credible analysis. This … Read more
I’m beginning to believe that Arizona’s Republican lawmakers really *don’t* understand the rule of law…
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings For the longest time, I thought that the lies and disinformation spouted by the Rs concerning AIRC were just that, lies and disinformation, and calculated to both rouse their base and to inoculate themselves from blame for not properly preparing for the redistricting process. I thought that while … Read more
