Proposition 100 appears to be on the ballot for the May 18th election (you are cheerfully reminded that early voting begins April 22nd). It seeks a temporary increase in the Arizona sales tax to support various programs in Arizona. A web site has been set up to encourage a Yes vote on this proposition. The web site is replete with videos of people whose paycheck depends on you paying them.
From the site with our augmentation in italics:
Proposition 100 Protects Arizona’s Basic Needs
Remember the teacher you had in elementary school, the one whose memory has stayed with you all this time? She seemed to care a little more than the rest. Those few minutes a day, the personal attention she gave every student, made the difference between really understanding algebra or barely pulling a C.
I do remember. I was taught the Constitution, the Bill of Rights I knew that George Washington was our first president. I learned basic math, science and English (You remember English? It is the language spoken in America.) Of course, teachers were allowed to discipline, then. I guess they hurt my ego. That’s what Spock says. The Arizona Education Network complains, “Arizona per-pupil funding is currently among the lowest in the nation.” Well then, I don’t know…. Why don’t we use the limited funds to teach kids the basics that they need in life. Or better yet, instill in the kids a knowledge of how to find out what they really want to know. Teach the kids how to learn instead of indoctrinating them.
Remember the time you dialed 9-1-1 and the police seemed to arrive on scene right when you hung up the phone?
I respect cops and I know quite a few. Some are really hard working, dedicated people doing their jobs. If this happened to you, you are extremely lucky. Extra taxes do not increase the response time. We could, of course, stop persecuting gun owners who protect themselves. Just a thought.
Remember the co-worker who had to be let go because of the economy? Last you heard, he still hadn’t found work – and his family was relying on AHCCCS to take the kids to the doctor.
Now this is sad and I cannot understand why we would cut medical care to children especially in these hard economic times. Is medical care for our elected representatives being cut, as well? Kids should not be punished because the Federal Reserve has destroyed our economy. Hey, there’s an idea. End the Fed, make Congress do their job outlined in the Constitution and then we can use the billions of dollars that the Fed is squirreling away in off-shore accounts to help our kids health and their education.
Yes, these are stories – but they’re the stories Arizonans live every day. And each of these stories is a reason to support Proposition 100, a temporary increase in Arizona’s sales tax meant to protect education, public safety and health care.
Yes, these certainly are stories. There is no such thing as “temporary increase” in taxes. Any increase in taxes promotes spending by the government that receives them.
The whole problem is that people do not have money because the Federal Government has consistently interfered with Constitutional businesses. They have taxed people since Roosevelt for a system that is now paying out in IOUs. They have instituted Medicare which is a major cause of health care cost increases. Now they created monstrous bureaucracies that eat at the GNP. And now they are on the “brink” of installing the final Communist bureaucracy to totally control health care.
It is not time to raise taxes. It is time to tell government to stop spending our grandchildren into debt.
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