Appointed Senator McSally continues to put GOP party politics above the interest of Arizona and our families. She refuses to support aiding the state and local governments whose revenues have plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic shut-down. Not making good those revenue shortfalls will force these governments to slash workforce, including first responders, since their largest expense by far is the personnel the public relies on every day for basic services.
State and local government here in Arizona and across the country will have to lay off vital front line workers like cops, firemen, teachers and nurses as they slash budgets. States’ Constitutions forbid them to deficit spend, as the Federal government can. They have no where to turn to prevent this outcome other than the Federal government.
Instead, McSally supports Mitch McConnell’s imaginary ‘plan’ to make the states file for bankruptcy – nobody even knows what that means, or how that would work; there is no current law allowing states to use bankruptcy procedures.
The whole idea is absurd on its face. The states haven’t creditors with whom they can restructure or discharge their debts. The states only “creditors” are the vital public servants who are expecting a pay check to keep food on the table and a roof over their families heads. How do you settle or discharge that?
This is just the GOP once again laying out the red carpet for the ultra-wealthy — whom they bailed out to the tune of $4.5 trillion without batting an eye — and telling working class regular folks to suck it up and figure it out for themselves. McConnell’s ‘plan’ is so irresponsible that it’s hard to even contemplate or evaluate. It certainly is not even remotely “conservative.” It’s a radical and irresponsible experiment with the lives, jobs and safety of millions of regular people.
That’s what McSally supports.
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