“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana. He must have been talking about Arizona’s so-called middle-class tax cuts. Or the famous Republican trickle-down economic theory that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would inevitably “trickle-down” to workers. On the contrary, there is ample evidence showing that wealth has … Read more
Last week the House laid down its marker in the infrastructure negotiations. House passes $760 billion transportation and water bill, making its pitch on infrastructure: The House passed a roughly $760 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill Thursday, a measure that stakes out the chamber’s position in a debate over how to rebuild the nation’s … Read more
850,000 new jobs were created in June. Sectors that grew the most were hospitality and leisure, education, and state government workers. It is the highest monthly jobs growth this year. However, there are still 6.8 million fewer jobs than when the COVID 19 Pandemic surged across the nation. In comments to the nation, President Joe … Read more
The Arizona Legislative Session ended with hours to spare today. The only winners during these last several weeks of the grueling budget process were: The wealthy received large tax cuts they did not need and possibly greater opportunities to milk the school voucher system. People who enabled the 2020 Election Big Lie and took a … Read more
Between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, the Washington D.C. media villagers engaged in ridiculous reporting about how President Biden’s coupling of the so-called “bipartisan infrastructure agreement” negotiated by the Gang of Ten, which he signed off on, with the much larger budget reconciliation human infrastructure package being hashed out by Democrats alone was a “Biden … Read more