Arizona's morally bankrupt message: Save the children, then abandon them
While Bart Stupak and the Catholic bishops continue to shill for the US Chamber of Commerce and health insurers with their ridiculous stand on abortion and health care reform, Arizona's Republican governor affirms what we already knew: "life" to Republicans is nothing more than a talking point.
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed legislation today ending the CHIP program in Arizona, effectively tossing 47,000 low-income children off the insurance rolls and out of doctors' offices.
Not content to stop there, the state is also rolling back their Medicaid coverage to toss an additional 310,000 adults off the rolls, claiming the state budget is simply too stressed to handle the load, which is strange, considering the federal matching funds they sacrifice along with the state's children.
The cuts also mean the state will forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in federal matching aid, and could lose far more if Congress passes a health bill that requires states to maintain eligibility levels for the two programs.
Ms. Brewer, a Republican, has warned that more cuts will be needed if voters do not approve a referendum in May to raise the sales tax by a penny for three years, to 6.6 cents per dollar.
“Arizona is navigating its way through the largest state budget deficit in its long history,” said Ms. Brewer, a staunch conservative who said she had never previously supported a tax increase. “With my signature on this budget, the first major step to recovery has been taken.”
Let me see if I understand this. A Republican governor wants to raise the sales tax to balance the state budget, which is operating at a shortfall like most state budgets right now. Part of balancing the budget is to forgo federal funds which would boost state resources to assist with covering children. Instead, Arizona has decided those children can die or end up in emergency rooms, which will then threaten hospitals' financial solvency. If those hospitals go bankrupt, then children, adults and seniors will have no access to any medical care, which will certainly make that state more attractive to commercial interests.
This smells like a temper tantrum to me, driven by teabaggers and extremists who would shut down abortion clinics but leave those now-born children in the desert to die. What I'm not seeing is an end game. How does this end well for anyone? Senior citizens would be hurt by bankrupt providers, too, and there are plenty of them in Arizona. If Governor Brewer gets her sales tax increase, will she reinstate the childrens' insurance program?
Please, make it stop...
Ouch. Just keeps getting worse.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
It is a well known conservative fact that the right to life ends at birth.
The old saying is proven true here. For Christians life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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actually this applies to only gop fucking white men.
females under gop opinion have no rights and these
women are too stupid to recognize they are being used
as whores for the gop......
Those of us here in Arizona know exactly what this is: A well orchestrated plan to turn Arizona into a Milton Friedman inspired utopia for the ultra-rich.
For years, the conservative Republican legislature has passed tax cut after tax cut after tax cut to prepare for this day. Starving the state government of funds in the hopes of stripping it bare of all programs that help those of no or little means.
What's even more sickening, is that even though they couldn't come up with $18 million to keep the state SCHIP program in place, they left in place the "tuition scholarship" credit to the tune of $95 million.
Our state parks are closing. Tuition is skyrocketing at our public universities and 300,000 adults are being kicked off the state's Medicaid roles.
All in adherence with the principles set forth by Milton Friedman and his ilk.
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"Tuition is skyrocketing at our public universities and 300,000 adults are being kicked off the state's Medicaid roles."
This is what they want. Class warfare. only the rich can afford an eduction and a decent job with a great wage. We are already at a point where the lower class can't pay for an education unless they get a scholarship. Now they're taking it to the next level. Deny the middle class a college education. The next step is the upper middle class.
This is class warfare and nothing less. Deny them basic needs, health care food housing and education trying to knock them down far enough until the just give up. It's only a matter of time before there's a true revolt in this country. Not a phony Tea Party but an uprising from the lower and middle class. I'll be on the front lines.
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and I suspect that is one of the purposes of the completely fake/created Tea Party movement: To escalate the hatred between stupid-violent 'conservative' patsies and the "Liberal" regular people. Direct the rage of the sick, poor and powerless people towards each other, rather than those who are actually responsible for our plight.
And its working.
Don't most children on CHIPS have darker skin color? It would only make sense then for a conservative to cut funding to "those" people.
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The imaginary friend is doing a really rotten job with his/her/its blessing. You'd probably be much better off without it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBresWP9MY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaE4QzN7iE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehuMZjyA6z8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jQC8akW2v4
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only took 8 years
and they were successful at striking a death blow to every new deal and great society program
huge grats
What part of "We are out of money" do you people not get?
Do any of you even live in Arizona? You don't know what the h*ll you're talking about! The economy is in the tank and tax revenue is way down, it's not that hard... THINK for ONCE in your miserable lives!I've lived here for over 30 years, taxes across the board go up every year but they spend 130% of it every year... the state is BROKE!!!!
The Repugs will never run out of suckers , that is for certain .
another "useful idiot"
Indeed , that you are .
I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say... oh forget it
You got me, nice quip :-)
You are so clever.
stop voting the same nuts into office. If after 30 years the same party has not done a better jobb, then it's time to look somewhere else. AZ is the very definition of insanity because voters keep electing the same people from the same party who are unwilling/unable to solve the state's problems and expect things to turn out differently. Seems to me that it's time for a wakeup call.
Just point out the fact that he admitted Arizona is broke. Arizona is run by conservatives. Conservatives have failed Arizonans. Yet I'm sure in the next elections he'll continue to vote for a party that has no clue how to govern.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5eQiKNQs
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I loved that movie. Want a stick of gum?
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Gum and popcorn don't mix...
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Isn't the state of Arizona controlled by Republicans up and down the board? If the state is broke then I guess you only have the GOP to blame. Kick them out. Starting with Brewer. Then get rid of McCain. If not just for his failure as a Senator but for unleashing that scum Palin on the lower 48. You said it yourself, Arizona is broke. Then you have to blame the people in power. Republicans. You can't govern. You can send us to war and let our soldiers die, but you can't govern.
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Yes, just kick out the Republicans in Arizona. Never mind that you've voted Democratic and been an activist since you moved there. . just kick them out. . what's wrong with you people?
I love how you guys have all the answers. . oh wait. . you don't. All you have is snark and complaints about rich people.
I live here, the state is shit, people are trying to do stuff about it. We're not there yet. Thank Obama for setting us back several years by taking our Democratic Governor away if you want to point fingers. She was the one holding back the Republicans in this state. She was very popular. Now she's been replaced by the Republican who was next in line. Who's fault is that?
Get off your high fucking horses.
You're broke, fine, we understand that. A lot of states are broke. But the first thing you cut is for the needy? I'm sure there's all kinds of programs AZ could cut but since you're a Republican the first people you go after is the lower and middle class. i'm sure the Corporations in AZ aren't feeling it.
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...GWB's unfunded mandates, going back to "No Child Left Behind", back in '01 right?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
So lets reject Federal assistance, stomp the poor people further into the mud (I mean the sand, seeing as its mostly desert), and then ... lets us Rich Wonderful People go play some golf on a sickeningly green over-watered golf course, one of THOUSANDS of golf courses IN THE DESERT.
Yeah, lets waste precious water on recreational resorts for the Rich. After all, it is THEY who create the wealth, it is THEY who do all the hard hard hard work and planning, and who bear that Terribly Heavy Load of Responsibility for the parasitic minorities of the underclass, who just sit around complaining.
Poor Arizona!
The last thing we need is another stinkin' raise in the sales tax. This state has a tiny income tax - that's the place to raise taxes. And close all the friggin' loopholes, especially the education tax credit.
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She's just doing her part being a good Republican . Get rid of all social programs , these rotten pigs do not give a damn about people and fellow human beings , they are out to create a society where the middle and lower class have no rights what so ever , where the top percentile possess all of the wealth and all of the power , own and control everything , they want to rule the world . These people are mad , just as insane and evil as those that have come before them in history .They cannot get enough power or money ... which equates to the same thing .
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History repeats itself.
I sat in Macaroni Grill today in Augusta Georgia and probably offended some of these tea party types, good! I ate lunch with a like minded friend of mine and quite frankly I ripped into the entire movement of the tea party freaks, and I saw quite a few uncomfortable faces. I am damned sick and tired of the media and the Democratic party giving these people any credibility whatsoever. These bastards are the most stupid, ignorant, racist, bigotted, and willfully ignorant people I have ever seen. I am not running for office so I don't have to be polite about how I speak about these morons. These simpletons proved beyond the shadow of a doubt with their antics towards the congresspeople just where they're coming from, and if the mainstream media, and that doesn't include Fox, wants to continue to give these things credibility, they risk being identified with the sentiments espoused by these creeps.
Acting like a rude jerk really showed them that you are right... bravo
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LOL! You ARE as dumb as I thought! Thanks
I see I was correct you never tire of being wrong
So how does Arizona look from your front porch? LOL!!
That state run by conservatives that is, as you put it, broke. Not very good.
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go right ahead and ignore my point... the tax revenue is down and after spending every penny that came in every year the money is gone. How do we pay the same bills with less money?
I know more job creating taxes!!! :-)
Will you vote party line in 2010 and 2012 knowing that your broke state is because of the party in power, conservatives. Or will you vote for change. Will you ask your politicians (conservatives) to do the Christian thing and help the needy instead of the needless? It's simple, you're asking us to think yet you refuse to.
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Arizona probably gave tax cuts claiming any revenue not spent at the end of the year was excessive taxation.
But then when they run out of money they say it's because of excessive taxation.
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Is how many more guns can we get ON the street.
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has been here for less than 1/2 hour. Don't expect anything intelligent to come out.
I'm still waiting to hear an "intelligent" answer to where the money is going to come from?
Ask your conservative politicians who spent it all in the first place. They're the ones who are spending it. Not the liberals. I've commented on your post five times and have yet to receive and "intelligent" response. I'm sure if you want to call names you could come up with something.
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Who was the gov. in AZ during the spending?
Well, don't you know who the governor was at the time?
to inflate somewhere. Health Care Bubble is the first thing that comes to mind.
and some other wealthy suburbs would like to kick in a little more. No? Just like the GOP: LOVE the benefits of our society, as long as other people pay the price for it.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Those Scottsdale residents you have such distain for employ most of us in Arizona.
And your point is?
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Disdain.
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ego's get offended? Anyway the tea party folks love the fuel! Gimme Media! Put us center stage! Media is more then happy to oblige I won't go any further then that. Promoting these people in any way shape or form is going to put them exactly where they want to be.
IN CHARGE
but their egos are very fragile, like a delicate rainbowed bubble. At the same time their ego-bubbles can't be popped or deflated. They just keep growing bigger and bigger.
Actually the thing that amazes me is that despite stories about the teabaggers, like one or two threads below, they're not widely disseminated on the corporate owned MSM.
Instead we get interviews with little old grannies at pains to look so reasonable, but you know it's palpably fake when they make jokes like, "Do I look deranged to you?"
Even though video clips have been widely dispersed of teabaggers at town meetings not asking questions or listening to answers, but trying to disrupt the meeting entirely.
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-you are doing exactly what the Neocon Media & Fox want you to do: Quarrel with other American Victims of our Corporate Owned Country, while overlooking who, exactly, is to blame.
It isn't the Teabaggers, disgusting as they are.
Remeber they will fight to the death for a mass of cells, but once it passes the cervix, its "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN YOU LAZY BASTERD!!!!"
Hooking them up to the government teet from birth until death would show real compassion.
Let those toddlers provide for their own health care. That'll toughen 'em up.
Remember me in November :-) Picture me with a cigar laughing.
Rush you fat fuck! Is that you??
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Go watch some Glen Beck moron .
I'd guess you watch him more than I do...
I listen to Dennis Prager... I know you must hate him, he is a jew who supports Isreal after all.
about them Left Wing Liberals running everything.
like McCain?
From birth to death he's had government heathcare and later a paycheck. Sure he's served his country but he's taken just as much as any poor person who works for a living has and perhaps even more. Just because someone isn't well of doesn't mean they don't work. That is something the right wing conveniently seem to forget.
Remember how Bush felt it uniquely American that a woman worked three jobs to make ends meet? Was she lazy and just looking to suck on the government teet? No, she was looking for a way to put food in her childrens stomach, keep a roof over their heads, and provide them with enough education so they could do the same for themselves one day. But no, to you in Teaville she was probably just looking for a way to stop working and sit on her ass and watch soaps all day.
I'm retired from the military and like McCain I served my country. Unlike him and his teabagger pals, I don't feel like the country owes me anything other than a chance to live a decent life. A life where I work and contribute to society with a job that pays a enough to live in dignity. If that forces me to pay taxes to provide for those less fortunate then so be it. Is that too much to ask in the 21st Century?
After that, you're on your own...
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Did the Arizonians refuse bail out money from Obama like perry did?
And mccain was born with his mouth locked into the nation's tit.
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Perry made a huge show of refusing federal money for his two hundred person crowd but he doesn't have anymore power than I do to turn it down. Perry is a gnat, probably the weakest governor holding the weakest governorship in the country.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Texas is in better shape than most states.
Bureaucrats run this state. The same bureaucrats that the GOP raises funds by badmouthing.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Them and the Lt. Governor who with his agenda setting power actually has more than the governor.
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We rank 47th in social spending.
Yet every yahoo who runs promises to cut social spending.
(perry did accept fed money to rebuild the governor's mansion, and more may've been accepted in the middle of the night to balance the state's budget).
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Take away the multitudes of military bases that were built there, and Texas would be Mississippi by the border - another red state shithole.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Or you wouldn't say such foolish things. Austin is one of the most liberal places in the country and has nothing to do with any military bases. Zero. Houston, San Antonio, Galveston, all very left leaning places and of those, only San Antonio has a significant military presence. Sorry about your theory but generally facts are good to have when formulating a hypothesis.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
My apologies to anyone here who is from the Lone Star State. Serves me right for over-generalizing.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
But remember that Texas was the home of such as Molly Ivins and Ann Richards. It only went Republican with the arrival of Bush and isn't even in the top ten reddest states. Arizona for example has us beaten.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
This is true. And I don't mind saying that I miss Molly Ivins.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
And Stevie of course. :-(
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Jim Hightower,Bill Moyers or Willie Nelson! Still with us,still fighting the good fight
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Money from Obama? What money FROM Obama? From his pocket? It's our money not his!
Actually no it's not, it's collected from all 50 states, not just one. I believe it's in either Article 11 The Value of Union to Commerce and the Advantages of a Navy, and/or Article 12 Union and the National Revenue in the Federalist Papers that make just that point.
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He thinks The Constitution is some pocket book handed to him from Freedom Works, not actual law. You need to stoop to his level if you want him to understand you.
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your hatred is obvious, the statement moronic.
And does Arizona have to balance it's budget every year
But have laws in place preventing the raising of taxes?
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More of those job creating taxes? Good idea!
had the biggest job creation run in it's entire history.
If the government doesn't raise taxes it goes into deficit. The general consensus of economists is that when the household sectors and the business sectors are no longer active, the government has to take up the slack or risk the entire system collapsing. During times of high unemployment they do that by deficit. But at some point they have to pay the deficit back and it can get to the point where all the money is paying off interest and no principal at all. That takes money out of the revenue stream for new loans for businesses and households. But if you can find a group that have been selectively spared taxes, like the top 10% bracket of our populace, one can manage the deficit spending needed without it growing like a teenager with his first credit card.
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Since they love their guns so much out there in AZ, how about jacking up the tax on guns and ammo up, oh say, 50%. What are the freaks gonna do? Get rid of their guns? I really don't get Arizona, especially the senior citizens who live there. I have to deal with them on a regular basis in the course of business. The senior citizens in AZ are the meanest, most unreasonable sons of bitches anywhere.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
People get bitchy when you want to take what they earned.
You don't earn anything in this country anymore you steal it.
So we steal our paychecks?
You people are sick
Only person sick on this thread is you. Not seeing the consequences of cutting CHIPS and Medicare on the needy and leaving the breaks for others. You are a sick person.
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That will result in more emergency room treatment where the average visit is $1500.00, if nothing too unusual is needed, that then get socked to the taxpayer when the patient is impoverished.
If a family can no longer afford to exist they could of course be broken up, but that goes contrary to family value statements, and would put kids into orphanages at State expense.
And of course there's the cost of free lock-up, food and medical care in prisons if the indigent turn desperate enough to turn to crime.
Two big tax cutting proposals on the federal level would be to end the wars and legalize personal narcotics, that would cut much of the cost of investigations, prosecutions and incarcerations and then approach the issue as an illness to be treated.
Time for some more Pears, Pinaud and Radox; I'm already late for it tonight.
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Rip Off Kings of the World that's the ticket!
Don't you mean whiny?
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Most of the teabagging idiots bitching about taxes haven't earned shit. I spend more on lunch than they pay in taxes.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
(I believe it was from Chris Rock): (paraphrasing)
We could make guns really cheap, then charge $1,000 a bullet. Might work.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
sons of bitches anywhere.
Have you BEEN to Florida?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Waaawaawaa, they are trying to take my money....wawawa.
How many upper echelon state and municipal gov't jobs were cut before the cuts to the poorest? Why are the very rich not paying their fair share? Taxes in the 60's were in the 90% range and America was at its peek. Only when they started slashing rates for the richest did America begin it's decent but the rich just want more and more.
F*&kn whiners, pay your share!
90% is their fair share? From each acording to their means to each according to their need...
90%? you are a crook
Does it feel better now that you pulled that 90% figure out of your ass?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Gene.... the 90% came from the post I replied to... go take your meds
comeback. Like your sane huh?
Ok, the 90% was a reply to someone else. Sorry! Does that make you feel better?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I think you're missing his point. They do pay higher rates, but years ago they paid a higher rate. MUCH higher. But they're taxes have been going down ever since. Yet they keep whining when all we're doing is going back to the Reagan tax rates. So was Regan a socialist?
But when you do the math. Someone making $60,000 gets taxed on 100% of that for Social Security. Someone making $250,000on pays taxes on 32% of it. Once you make enough money, (adjusted for inflation each year) You don't get taxed on it. It evens out. Quit you're fucking whining. I'd like us to go back to the 90% just to hear you cry.
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or schools or facilities! Keep your hands off my hard earned $250~!
So we only make @50 yet you want 90% of it??!! LMFAO!!!
Good night fools
Remember... November, me, cigar... LAUGHING! kisses!
looks? Didn't think so.
is some kind of repressed homosexual urge they don't want to admit to.
Actually under President Eisenhower the top bracket was 90%, but we still had rich people.
And he was a Republican and a former General.
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However, in the 80's reagan slashed the tax brackets down, and some shelters, and borrowed heavily to support his expenditures. The 200 year old deficit he promised to cut, he doubled in just eight years.
The Chinese and the Saudis are now supporting our deficit, but if they ever call in their chips, the chips will fall on us.
Under pappa bush and baby bush we had increases in the deficit. It was only under Clenis that we saw a decrease. This was based primarily on his economic plan that NO republicans voted for.
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And yet somehow mansions und yachts were still built and sold.
And you know what? When taxes were that high, an infrastructure- roads, bridges, power grids, etc.- was developed with the taxes, and that infrastructure is used today to generate commerce and provide wealth.
Except that back in the day, the infrastructure was used to move raw materials to plants (plants filled with workers schooled by well-funded public schools), and products were made within the country, shipped back via the same infrastructure. These days there are more and more imports being shipped through the country, less and less domestically manufactured products. And you know where the motherfuckery lies in that? It was through the benefit of the infrastructure that those in the top income brackets made enough money to start building new plants overseas, and enough money to buy the politicians in second and third world countries to make sure that they'd never have to kick in more than they felt like to build infrastucture or educate their new employees.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Here's the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) cartoonist's take on the cost cutting moves by our legislature. The last panel refers to the legislature's continuing support to legalize sparklers in the state.
http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/fitz/image_...
As I have said before Repukes use stupidity as a shield.
Look it up, tax rates were in the 90% range during the 60's but also prior and I don't seem to remember any lack of rich people. Also as I stated one could say the 50's & 60's were the Golden Age of America. And the money that went to the gov't was used for those "socialist projects" like the highway system and bridges and Medicare and on and on.
Now it is only tax breaks for the rich and a widening between the classes and unless you are filthy rich, one day they will come for you too.
$647 billion for "defense",now don't we? With 'black'projects probably a TRILLION.Defense,huh?
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Look it up, google isn't so hard.
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/0...
http://www.mytaxcut.us/actualtaxrates.php
And don't forget the closing of the rest stops. Not only do Arizonans throw children off of Medicaid, they won't even let them take a dump at a rest area because "there's no money".
Public toilets are socialism, don't you know? I guess that gives us license to take a dump on the side of the road.
one smelly state!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
........ Any more. Right now, I'm visiting in Southern California, watching what happens to an even more Conservative state (public relations to the contrary) when you get trapped between Republic legislators screaming "No Taxes" and the rest of the legislators screaming "no cuts". What you have to do is to try and raise taxes while lowering costs (wasting millions of dollars on a follow-on "self-esteem survey" would have been a good cut, but the contract igned before Arnold got into office, and you can't change your mind about such things.. yeah, right, 100K penalty to save over 2M)and trying to find something that will do both without irritating either side.
Cutting corporate tax holidays, and any programs that benefit people with an annual income over 2 million would be a good start. Oops. Didn't work. Turns out California legislators can be bought for lunch at Denny's and a few free hours at any of the many "massage centers" and "day spas" that flourish in downtown Sacto. So where to cut? Schools are a good idea. Nobody worthwhile has their kids in public school, anyway. Health care? If you are successful, you have good health care. If you are successful, according to the megachurch pastors, it also means G-d like you. And the poor? If being successful means G-d loves you, what does it mean if you're poor? Work it out, sinners.
Every day I'm down here on the borders of Orange County, I come closer to agreement with a colleague who insists that, in the States, "Conservative" and "Christian" are mutually exclusive.
So Arizona, nice to see you're following California's lead. WOuld you like Arnold when he's done here?
Do the names, John McCain, John Kyl, J.D. Hayworth, Sheriff Arpio suggest a well informed electorate? Case closed.
Your post made me LOL. It's spot on! I have a set of the same type of bozos running the state into the ground here in GA, but the non-critical thinkers outnumber the critical thinkers and keep voting them into office. It says a whole lot about my state when Nathan Deal is running for governor. The man is a nut in the House of Representatives, and he will be a nut as governor, if he gets elected.
I am so ashamed of the GOP. Man these are not human beings. They are just greedy fucking idiots!
state budget deficit in its long history,” said Ms. Brewer,"
Apparantly it's also navigating its way through the largest compassion deficit, as well.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Arizona has a significant sales tax, compared to other states, though not the highest. It has low taxes on gasoline and a relatively low rate on liquor.
It's about halfway down the list in terms of corporate tax rate.
Among the states with an income tax, AZ is fifth from the bottom in amount collected per capita.
There's a moral question here: watch your citizens die for lack of health care, or raise taxes a bit to pay for this basic social service. We know where Arizona politicians stand.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/
In Canada everything works. Our much less corruptable form of government prevents our psycho elites from running us into a ditch. Our senate is not a bulwark against democracy; just a toothless resting place for retiring party hacks. Our banks work. We have the CBC to present a modicum of truth. Nobody dies to protect private health care providers profits. All races get along just fine. If we could just syphon off 10 or 15 million progressives from the USA things could really get interesting up here. PLEASE CONSIDER IMMIGRATING TO CANADA. The group of decent Americans that came to avoid the Vietnam invasion have prospered here. Tea baggers, Republicans, patriots, rapture ready assholes stay home and go down with the ship.
Namaste
You can addd that the priest might molest some of them, as well.
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