What do you do when the Republican legislature spends its time and resources on promoting dumb things like tax credits for private school donations? What do you do when Arizona, for the first year in several, has a budget surplus? What do you do in a state with a growing population where new schools, roads and police and fire protection services are needed? What do you do when you really don’t have a spending problem in the first place?
Why, you propose an amendment to the Arizona Constitution to limit spending!
That's what those who control the legislature and the Goldwater Institute want to do and they're selling us the false idea that Arizona needs a Taxpayer’s Bill Of Rights (TABOR). Goldwater has a policy paper on it and in it they make a questionable claim that Arizona’s 2005 deficit would have been smaller had a TABOR been in place. Their source? A press release. Wow. How convincing.
I have a better idea. Lets vote out office those politicians who don't have the willpower to control themselves. Let’s vote out politicians who create fake problems using false pretenses and want to amend the Constitution to solve them. That's a vote I'm more than willing to cast.
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