Welcome to America’s hottest new reality game: Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition. The rules are simple: Step 1: Propose massive cuts to Medicaid. Step 2: Funnel the savings into tax breaks for billionaires. Step 3: Watch hospitals collapse, ERs overflow, and working families get crushed. Step 4: Don’t even bother to hide the greed. This … Read more
The Grand Canyon Institute is a “centrist think tank” that provides a great service to our state by analyzing economic issues and producing independent reports. (You can read many of these reports at this link on their website.) Below is June 8, 2021 press release from the Grand Canyon Institute. It incudes key findings from … Read more
James Carville was right in 1992, and he still is today: “It’s the economy, stupid.” After Democrats in the House passed the HEROES Act back in May, the “Grim Reaper” of the Senate legislative graveyard announced, “I don’t think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately. That time could develop, but I don’t think it … Read more
Since it’s Wednesday, I am wearing red, and today’s video about public education funding. Yesterday, I was filling out an endorsement questionnaire, and one of the questions was: do you support raising sales taxes to pay for public education? This question is so January 2020. When we were in session, there was much discussion about … Read more
On Sunday, March 1, 2020, I was the keynote speaker at a South Tucson community forum on tax giveaways (specifically the GPLETs), gentrification, housing, and poverty. The following is my speech. Thank you all for coming, and I especially want to thank Brian Flagg of Casa Maria for organizing this. You may know me as … Read more