by David Safier
It's one thing for a tax and spend liberal like me to go after the Goldwater Institute about figures they make up come out with. It's a whole 'nother thing when the Guv does it.
G.I. has been pushing a number that says a tax boost will cost Arizona some 14,000 private sector jobs. Brewer, who has been pushing the idea of a $1 billion tax hike, isn't buying it.
Brewer specifically rejected the results of a study conducted at the behest of the Goldwater Institute, which opposes her plan, claiming that hiking sales taxes by $1 billion a year would result in the loss of more than 14,000 private sector jobs.
"I do not believe that figure," she said.
Battle lines are being drawn on the budget, and Brewer has to be asking herself, which side am I on?
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