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Maybe the Governor of Arizona should get busy and create jobs, why should the people of Arizona depend on the President to create jobs for them when they have the great white hope Ducey working for them
"...The result, at least in states like Arizona where conservative Republicans are the party in control, is a limited vision of what state government should or could be doing. New Governor Doug Ducey ran essentially on a platform of “Less is more,” reflected in his plan (since mothballed) to eliminate the state income tax while keeping premature business tax cuts that have contributed to a 2016 budget gap approaching $1 billion."
It's not government's job to take financial care of you for the rest of your life.
We say premature because they were passed two years ago on the assumption that the state economy would be in healthy recovery by now. Ducey, as state treasurer, campaigned in 2012 against a permanent extension of the 1-cent state sales tax hike worth $700 million for K-12 schools in part because the tax cuts would stimulate enough taxable economic growth to make a hike in the tax rate unnecessary.
Back in the “laboratory of democracy” days, elected officials were not afraid to admit when their first pass at a legislative fix didn’t work – they would convene the next year and tweak the school funding formula or the Medicaid income limit.
But Ducey and the small-government groups that backed his campaign aren’t ready to throw in the towel on tax cuts. While most economists say a recession is just the time for government spending to increase temporarily as private demand slows, many Republicans stubbornly cling to an austerity theory that not only says government spending to prime the recessionary pump is unnecessary but that tax cuts will stimulate the private sector.
So far, though, just the opposite has taken place in Arizona, and now Ducey is poised to make another round of budget cuts to offset revenue losses caused by the tax cuts. The university system is set to lose $75 million in state support while cities and counties will continue to be shorted tens of millions of dollars in what they are owed in state revenue-sharing."
So what do big wet kiss to welfare bring. Obviously not much, they just cut the time to 1 year.
You must be having reading comprehension issues today..this is what I said:
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I'm sure the Governor thought his big wet kiss to business would generate more revenue, what went wrong?
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