Fellow blogger and mentor Larry Bodine may be right when he said, after learning the depressing details of the budget the Arizona Senate Republicans passed this morning, “we’re doomed.” We definitely will be if we do not stay engaged and fight back. Political polarization and fringe tribalism in Arizona has come to a point where: … Read more
The Republican budget — with the financially irresponsible Flat Tax, several other tax giveaways and miscellaneous failed bills stuffed into it to buy votes — is on the agenda today, June 22, 2021. Here we go again. This will be the third time that the House has debated versions of the largest tax overhaul in … Read more
Governor Doug Ducey and Arizona Republicans are promoting a 2.5% flat tax on personal income and have included it in the budget package, currently under negotiation in the Arizona Legislature. They are also proposing that income over $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for couples be taxed at 1%. Usually excess profits are taxed at a … Read more
Another big lie making a comeback in the Know-Nothing-Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disnfowar Universe is that the Biden/Harris Administration (like the Obama/Biden one before it) is going to gut the second amendment and take away law-abiding citizens’ guns. Fringe reactionaries along with blow with the fringe wind local and state leaders and a gun industry looking to … Read more
It is budget time at the State Capitol and Democrats have unveiled the fiscal priorities they want the State Legislature to consider in negotiations in the coming weeks. Called Restore, Recover, and Rebuild, the Democratic program, (please read the full proposal by clicking the below link,) is a people’s first one that is geared to … Read more