News item: One in four of the things promised to voters in exchange for the RTA tax increase won’t get done according to Rob O’Dell’s article. Apparently the RTA was sold on bad projections, is overrunning the secret higher projections you were not shown (even at a time when the state is getting more bang for the road construction buck due to hungry [...]
The Arizona Daily Star just posted a story with the following headline: “TUSD override effort gets big endorsement” Wow, Democrats supporting a tax increase? Who would have seen that coming? “In other breaking news, water has been discovered to be wet.” And who is the Star to call an endorsement of anything by the Pima County Democratic Party [...]
The governor has floated the idea of a state sales tax increase and this appears to be backed by one of her advisers. We’ll ignore the who’s and why’s of this for a moment and look at the proposed idea at face value. The proposed increase is one penny from 5.6 cents on the dollar [...]
Today’s Political Notebook in the Star, in addition to a fawning “Gabby good, Tim Bee bad” story, features an entry about state Senator Jorge Garcia. Sen. Garcia says that the state could raise a quick $500M by raising the alcohol tax. He said “equalize”, he meant “wildly increase.” Currently the tax is $3/gallon for hard [...]
The Tucson City Council Sleeper Cell (tasked with destroying the city), in a rare move, has announced their next strike. They have targeted tan fit renters and hotel occupants. Apparently, the Tucson City Council Sleeper Cell hippies have been taking direction from the Arizona Daily Star. The Daily Star said that they needed to find [...]
Debbie does hypocrisy
Oh, SNAP
D’Oh!!! Oil crisis pre-empts Simpsons rerun!
The Pelosi Index
The ground under Tucson is shifting