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Voters to Decide on Sales Tax Increase

by on Feb. 05, 2010, under Politics

On May 18th Arizona voters will go to the polls to decide if a temporary (three  year) increase in the sales tax will go into effect. Data Port would like to know how you think you’ll vote.

Use the comments for your rants or cool-headed arguments about the brilliance or stupidity of this move.

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  • http://pointmantucson.yuku.com/ mike_brewer

    This proposal is completely bereft of creativity and the proverbial juevos. The Real Estate community skates again.
     
    Howabout taxing franchises who take their profits out of the state.? And I  mean the franchiser not the franchisee. Howabout taxing retail and office rents 1/4%, almost negligible to a tenant, but a huge source to the State? It was once 5%: it is now O!  I know, I was a lobbyist who got rid of it. But we were fat then, not now, and I do not believe the real estate industry should be immune and have the weight carried by the commoner. This will not pass for this reason.
     
    The sychopant real estate industry is a near idol in Arizona.  And the right to work state has worked out real well huh? The carpenter that builds a house cannot afford to buy one! Ergo no middle class, with the obvious result of not enough sales tax to run the state. There never will be. This trend is NOT going to reverse.
     
    The folks that got us in the mess need to pay.  Not us grapes pickers in the vineyard. There is some bad karma on the horizon.
     
    Homework readers. Why is  New Mexico not in the same dire straights as we are?

    • leftfield

      Pray tell; why is NM not in the same dire straits?

      • http://pointmantucson.yuku.com/ mike_brewer

        They have a real estate transfer tax, that helps. We refuse to the Sanhedrin of real estate.

        • http://pointmantucson.yuku.com/ mike_brewer

          ..to touch– I meant.

          • leftfield

            The state may not be better off, but at least I now know what a Sanhedrin is.

  • radmax

    Well, we better do something. The legislature is obviously not willing to make the entitlement cuts it needs to.(get a soapbox) Once again it falls to the taxpayer to make up for the shortsighted vision of politicians.

  • dataport

    At the moment my own inclination is to vote for the sales tax, although I’ll have to hold my nose to do it. Sales taxes are regressive, having a greater proportional impact on the poor.
     
    Granting that the little poll in this post is nothing more than an unscientific snapshot, I don’t think  the results bode well for passage. And then we are back to square one.
     
    Good Grief

  • Ferraribubba

    Wasn’t it Joe Biden who said that the more taxes we pay, the more patriotic we are?
    Then I just wonder how patriotic our beloved POTUS Obama’s original cabinet picks were? Hey Tim, et al, are you guys listening?
    How does the old saw go? ‘Do as I say, not as I do? LMFAO!
    Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

    • leftfield

      No.  You’re thinking of King George Bush, who said the more we shop, the more patriotic we are. 

      I’ll have to vote nae for the very reason Dataport mentioned.  It’s really ok if AZ must become a ward of the federal government.  Perhaps the feds could function as a responsible adult and take away AZ’s privilege of self-government.  It wouldn’t be without precedent.  It would be akin to nationalizing the Guard when the locals misbehave.

      • dataport

        Lefty…
        Another reason for voting “no” is that the Republican legislature can’t be trusted.  They are quite capable of taking the money and giving it away in more corporate tax cuts.

  • ldonyo

    Asking the people of a state that continues to lose jobs to pay even more for everything they buy because the legislature cannot do basic math is ridiculous. Personally, I would like to know where the money to pay for this special election is coming from.

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