I have corrected this Arizona Daily Star headline for accuracy. Ducey talks disdain for Arizona’s new education tax, vows fast fix: A new voter-approved tax on high-earning Arizonans [Prop. 208, Invest In Ed] that will boost education spending is firmly in Gov. Doug Ducey’s crosshairs, with the Republican vowing Friday to see Proposition 208’s new … Read more
The Arizona Republican Sedition Party’s “Stop The Steal” attempt to reverse the certified, signed, sealed and delivered 2020 vote with a sham “audit” conducted by radical Republican state senators who gave aid and comfort to the violent seditious insurrectionist MAGA/QAnon cult in Washington D.C. on January 6, and to their insane party chair, Kelli “Chemtrails” … Read more
Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more
A Last-Minute Add to The Stimulus Bill Was Meant to Restrict State Tax Cuts so that states could not steal COVID Relief funds from the recipients Congress deemed deserving of aid and use the federal funds to subsidize tax cuts for the usual suspects, i.e., corporations and the wealthy. A last-minute change in the $1.9 … Read more
In 2014, it was corporations and their interest in maintaining the profitability of corporations that led them to pressure the legislature to defeat the so-called religious liberty (“freedom to discriminate”) bills against the LGBTQ community – in Arizona this was SB1062 – when threats of boycotts and responding to pressure from business interests, and worries about … Read more