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Rally at State Capitol Friday with Joe the Plumber against Brewer’s sales tax
March 24, 2010 by 14 Comments
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18%? How can a one cent increase be 18%?
Well, I did the math. The sales tax in AZ is a combo of state and local taxes. If you pull out the state share and add one cent, it is an 18% increase. Just what we need – more taxes. Why don’t we just give all we make to the government and beg them to give us enough to eat and maybe a tent like Sheriff Joe so we have a place to live.
The only way we can grow our way out of our recession is to lower taxes at all levels. It always works – always.
Here is what you can do – I have already done this. There are folks running for the state legislature who want you to sign their form. Ask them how they feel about raising the sales tax. If they say they don’t like it, but we have to do it, STOP! Do not sign their form. Politely tell them you will not support them, and leave the scene. Then go find a real conservative to vote for who will help all of us regain our freedom and prosperity.
We all need to thank Brewer for proposing the tax increase. She showed her true colors and gave Martin a huge edge in the race. When he wins, we all need to thank her.
I am going to vote no on Prop 100. All this budget balancing is a bunch of bull. I receive nothing from the State of Arizona.
The only people who receive anything from the State are freeloaders.
They should be lowering taxes anyway. That’s how you create jobs and build up our economy.
I was going to say, you don’t need a college degree to know increasing tax in a recession is always a bad idea. Martin has a college degree and is against this tax. Brewer doesn’t have a college degree and thinks the tax increase is a good idea.
Hmmm… I guess you DO need a college degree to know!
Most people won’t realize that it’s not a 1% tax increase, but an 18% one. The governor and her cronies are a deceitful group of people. We need to oust them all in November.
So AzJAck, children in schools, disabled children, DPS officers, national guard members, prison guards are all freeloaders. There is a need for government and it has to be paid for. You can be a conservative and still think that the sales tax may be needed. I haven’t decided how I will vote but your argument that all people who receive anything from the state are freeeloaders is not a winning argument.
Add to Arizona taxeas are the new ObamaCare taxes, effective IMMEDIATELY.
No healthcare services or healthcare changes or improvements promised effective immediately, just the TAXES.
No wonder the Democrats are so giddy and laughing so hard. “YES, we CAN raise taxes and give nothing in return and the nincompoops are HAPPY we’ve screwed them.”
Pelosi, “We break down this door and more legislation to follow.” Translation, “Now we’ve figured out how to soak everyone, we’ve got more methods to remove money from the citizens.”
More taxes.
OBama approvingly said his father was in favor of 100% taxation.
We’ve got a ways to go to make that Dream of My Father a reality, so the Democrats are hustling.
SO, tax tax tax.
Wave at Pelosi’s tax-payer funded jet as she wines and dines her way back and forth across the USA. Obama just can’t survive without $100 a pound steaks for dinner.
Okay everyone, clarification time: The sales tax is increasing from 5.6% to 6.6%. Not from 5.6% to 18.0%.
The new tax rate is about 18% greater (6.6 / 5.6 = 1.18) than the old tax rate.
The ironic feature of this tax proposal fiasco lies in the fact that Jan was persuaded to push for a sales tax increase by her McCainiac advisor and (confessor?), Chuck Coughlin.
Now McCain and Kyl have come out against the tax hike and left Brewer out to dry! (Of course AFTER she endorsed “The John”!
The governor has shown poor judgment in choosing friends! Especially those with a quarter century track record of proven self-centered duplicity!
She seems to have a case of terminal naivete!
A good cause for office removal!
Everyone here remembers the Voter Protection Act – 1998 proposition 105. It essentially prohibits the legislature reducing funding for protected programs, requiring cuts to be focused on the others. It has been defended on the grounds that the funds collected for these programs are distinct from the General Fund, but there’s no real consequence to that distinction: the money still comes from state taxes and fees. Those sources of state revenue are merely locked into prescribed spending.
This is why Gov. Brewer can’t cut state spending as dramatically as Martin insists: cuts can’t be distributed to reduce their impacts on affected programs. In this case, it seems that the choices are between cutting into muscle (critical Arizona programs such as public education), borrowing (which has greater costs in the long run and sets bad precedents), and the temporary tax increase.
K-12 education spending is not muscle, it is an featherbedded boondoggle loaded with pork and waste. If you take what we spent per child in the dark ages of 1970 when kids had hot lunch, sports, arts, band, AP classes, etc. and adjust it for inflation we should be spending $4000/child today. What do we spend? $9400/child, 2.5 times as much for an inferior product. Private schools spend $5500/child today and turn out a better product for 40% less. Private schools have 3 teachers to 1 admin. Public schoold have 1 teacher to 1 admin. Any wonder where all our illspent tax dollars are going? Cut 40% from K-12, education in the same manner as private schools and we’ll get a better product for less while dealing with the budget a the same time. What a two for one special!
Your analysis neglects the mechanism of change. You propose cutting the budget 40%, but the effect would not be the removal of dead wood. The administrators you mention have contracts and the benefit of a system dependent on the current organization. A reduction in funding would instead hit less committed costs: the hiring and retention of non-tenured teachers and the resources available to teachers and students.
There is waste in the education system, but there must be a less dislocating way to achieve the needed changes.
Carson,
It takes guts, a meat axe and a lot of hacking and you start at the top with the crap that maintains the mess below it. When the vested powers that be are gone and the ratio of teacher to admin is 3:1 it’s there. Any business execute that has done turn arounds know how its done. It’s not for the faint of heart. That said, it’s how you clean out a disaster.
What do we need schoolin’ for anyways? Joe the Plumber aint got no schoolin,’ and he’s a big shot now!