(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Arizona has one of the worst budget deficit problems in the country (live by the property bubble…) written about here and here. New governor Jan Brewer has called for a “temporary” sales tax increase to prevent the sort of belt-tightening of the Arizona budget already having been done by most Arizona families.
We at the Goldwater Institute strongly disagree, and put out the following humorous video today to explain why:
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Could be worse, you could be in Nevada…a state with the largest growth in government spending in the nation which followed up the largest economic collapse in the state in 70 years with the largest tax increase in the state’s history – 21%.
We got the “temporary” tax promise too.