The state of Arizona has dug itself into a deep budget hole, and
it’s decided that the children must bear the cost for the tax cuts to
the wealthy.Will its lawmakers begin to make sensible decisions
and cease wasting taxpayer dollars on senseless parades of stupidity
like chemtrail hearings? Probably not.
Will lawmakers address
the fact that the wealthy in Arizona only pay about 4.7 percent of their
income in taxes, while the poorest residents pay 12.9 percent of
theirs? Nope.
State lawmakers have instead chosen “option c”
which, as with taxes, further hurts the poor in one of the most
impoverished states in the nation. Arizona faces a $1 billion hole in
its deficit — and Republican lawmakers have decided that this hole will
be filled with the tears of the poor, thousands of whom will be kicked
off food stamps on July 1, 2016.
1,600 families, including more
than 2,700 children will fall victim to Republicans’ successful
implementation of a scheme to reduce lifetime welfare benefits to 12
months — the shortest cutoff in the country.
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