PHOENIX (AP) – Secretary of State Ken Bennett says 38% of eligible voters participated in the May 18 statewide special election that coincided with local voting in some parts of the state.
Bennett and other top state officials on Friday approved the canvass for Proposition 100, the 1-cent sales tax increase that takes effect on June 1st.
The canvass had nearly 1.2 million votes cast on Proposition 100, with 64% of voters approving Proposition 100 and 36% rejecting it.
In a “Democracy,” approximately two-thirds of 36% of eligible voters voted for an increase in taxes of eighteen-percent. We can only speculate why 64% of Arizona voters could not find the time to stop this vote “for our children.”
No doubt that struggles required to pay this tax are a part; that is jobs. Unfortunately, most people do not realize that they cannot be fired from their jobs for being late because they stopped to vote. Many do not realize that the polls are open after many of them get off of work. A percentage probably could not miss their appointment at the unemployment office.
Perhaps we should use some of this tax money to, I don’t know, educate the people in and out of public schools?
A portion, certainly, was due to plain old apathy. Some did not want to go through the trouble of standing in line and going through all of the “paperwork.”
It is definite that since most counties do not purge their voting registry when people move or even die, we can probably attribute, at least, a small portion to simple accounting.
The point is that our state is guaranteed under Article IV, Section IV a “Republican form of government.” That is NOT to say the Republican party of today. They are no more “republican” than Nancy Pelosi.
No, in a Republican government, the legislature would be required to cut out unconstitutional departments, such as Child Protective Services and make cuts in government hand-out programs. Or vote, themselves, to raise taxes. Initiatives and referendums and all of that nonsense is foreign to a Republic and our Constitution. They are concepts intentionally absent from the Constitution of the United States of America.
The way it is supposed to work is that the legislature votes for a tax increase and the people vote them out of office the following election. Ditto your representative in the House of Representatives. In this way, the Congress and the legislature of the state respond by carefully considering violating your rights when they vote.
That is, if you can get more than 38% to vote and you can actually use public schools to teach the true Constitution.
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Tags: Arizona, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Democracy, Republic, Taxes, Tea Party
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