I am so sick and tired of reading short-sighted, narrow-minded, agenda-tainted arguments coming out of Robert Robb. So sick in tired, in fact, that I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
In today's Arizona Republic, he, for the second or third time, makes a dishonest argument for "tax relief" because a single economist studied tax rates and compared that to growth. There are so many problems with this hypothesis that it's nutty to use just it to base statewide policy or tax cuts. For one, it presumes that tax rates alone are the main reason for stimulating economic growth. That's not the problem in Arizona because, as the second fastest growing state in the country, we're growing anyway. Secondly, I have yet to speak with a single person who thinks they're being burdened by taxes, and I ask.
Someone should ask Robert Robb to find more than one economist to support his arguments for a change in Arizona's tax structure. It's interesting that when Arizona falls around the median, Robb paints the state as having high taxes, yet when it comes to educational achievement being at the bottom of the rankings, Robb refuses to advocate for increased financial support for schools.
It seems to me that Robb wants not only to rob our state the resources it needs to handle growth, he also wants to make sure our students are too dumb to be able to figure out what Republicans are doing to them.
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