Will we see something like this in Arizona?

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by David Safier

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The Governor or South Carolina, Mark Sanford (R), is 100% against all this government spending during an economic crisis. Cut spending. Cut taxes. That's what we need.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says South Carolina has the nation's third highest jobless rate, though Sanford says he doesn't believe the numbers. And he'll be damned if he's going to ask the feds for a loan to shore up the unemployment benefits fund just because it's running out of money.

That's his stand and he's sticking to it. At least, until . . .

Just hours before the unemployment benefits fund was to run out in South Carolina, the state with the nation’s third-highest jobless rate, Gov. Mark Sanford relented Wednesday and agreed to apply for a $146 million federal loan to shore it up, after weeks of refusing to do so.

He's not the first Republican to see the error of his no-big-government ways when a rock meets a hard place. And he won't be the last.

Is this what we're going to see in Arizona? Will our Republican legislators pull back from their "Read my lips, no new taxes" stance when they see the red ink spilling everywhere with not enough of that government fat they love to complain about waiting to be cut from all those unnecessary government programs?

No predictions from me. I'm just watching the wheels go round and round.

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2 thoughts on “Will we see something like this in Arizona?”

  1. Not suggesting. Not predicting. Just wondering. TABOR has crashed and burned in some states with Republicans realizing it doesn’t work once the surpluses are burned through. Didn’t Huckabee try to pass tax increases in his state? I know Bush The First raised taxes, and I believe (but I’m not sure) Reagan did as well.

    So my question is, as right wing and anti-tax as the Republican legislators are in AZ, is it possible they’ll find some reason to reluctantly reinstate the property tax they put on hold rather than killing it? Or figure out a way to create a tax-that-really-isn’t-a-tax to infuse some money into the sinking budget?

    I’m just suggesting that it’s a possibility, not predicting it will happen. Let’s both watch and see what happens. Mel Brooks famously said, “It’s great to be the king.” Let’s see if the AZ GOP think it’s great to be the king when the economy is tanking.

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