Tax Policy

Democratic Reaction to MAGA House Republicans Taking State Employee and Teacher Pay Hostage if the Governor Does Not Sign Their Starvation Skinny Budget

by

Arizona MAGA House Republican Appropriations Chair David Livingston has thrown down the government shutdown gauntlet if the State Senate and Governor Katie Hobbs does not agree to the “Freedom Caucus” Skinny Budget. With many Freedom Caucus MAGA Republicans members, encouraged by their Senate Puppetmaster Jake ‘Indicted Troll Farm” Hoffman, still pouting and whining that the … Read more

Democratic Senate Leader Priya Sundareshan Discusses the Upper Chambers Sprint to Finish Legislative Business at the State Capitol Last Week

by

With her first year as the State Senate Leader in the Arizona Legislature, Senator Priya Sundareshan graciously took time to discuss the upper chambers sprint to the legislative finish line last week headlined by the passage of two bipartisan measure: a 17 billion dollar budget and a water security bill that will protect urban water … Read more

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Calls Whiny House Republicans Position on Budget “A Farce” and Their Fiscal Plans DOA

by

After meeting with fiscal bomb throwing MAGA “Free Caucus” State House Republicans, an incensed Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs issued the below statement, calling their position “a farce” and “pointless political grandstanding” that hurts hardworking Arizonans. She also reiterated that their move to pass a continuation budget would “meet her veto pen.” “For months I have … Read more

Just When You Thought It Could Not Get Worse, The Senate Republicans Released a Budget Blueprint More Hurtful Toward the People Than the House

by

Honestly, this should not be a surprise to the American People. Since the time of Reagan, Republicans before Donald Trump have been proposing historically discredited supply side trickle down economics budgets that make the rich richer, the poor poorer, the middle class smaller, and the national debt higher. With Trump doing their bidding, this third … Read more