Greetings …
From beautiful Tucson, Arizona and welcome to another edition of the Baja Arizona Kos Sunday Open Thread. Much to talk about this week. Click through for some news, some views and some planning for our upcoming 6th Annual Picnic.
First a tune …
Now some news …
Good news, I guess, for those who love the Sound of Freedom, D-M among candidates to get F-35s. If they had any brains they’d just cancel the damned thing. In Neoliberal news, Waste Management is sending 120 Arizona jobs to India and, imagine that, State's corporate tax cuts not proving to be economic stimulus.
PHOENIX — Corporate tax cuts enacted during the recession amid promises they would stimulate business growth will actually leave the state with $350 million less per year by the time they’re fully implemented.
Legislative budget staffers said Arizona collected $663 million last year in corporate income taxes. Had the tax laws stayed the same, even with economic changes, the state still would have brought in $644 million by the 2019 budget year.
But members of the state’s Finance Advisory Committee figure that cuts in the tax rate approved in 2011, coupled with a provision that allows some multi-state corporations to choose an alternate method of computing what they owe, means actual collections that year will be less than $300 million.
The tax cuts were promoted as an incentive to get corporations and their high-paying jobs to move to Arizona.
Prop. 123
Tim Stellar had a few good paragraphs on Prop. 123 at the Star on Thursday. Ron Barber has come out against it and I think I agree with him.
And yet, there’s life in the “no” campaign. On Thursday, former Congressman Ron Barber became one of the more high-profile Arizonans to come out in opposition to the proposition.
“It is my belief Prop. 123 will do far more harm than good,” Barber said in a video. “The issues I have with Prop. 123 include numerous triggers that will allow the Legislature to keep money from public education, the fact that it changes our constitution, and the real concern that it depletes our state land trust by eating into the principal.”
The 6th Annual BAK Picnic
The 6th Annual Picnic will take place on Saturday, April 30 starting at 2 pm. The venue will be the lovely and historic Agua Caliente Park on the north-east side. It may already be warm by then so I’ll try to get there early to grab the shadiest spot. If you’ve been watching the messages you know that we’re trying to plan the menu, as in who’s bringing what, so there won’t be too much food like there was last year in Bisbee. I’ll bring meat-on-a-stick of some sort, a portable charcoal grill and some soda pop. Topics for discussion will include: Prop.123, the Race for CD-2 and Why Arizona Loves Daily Kos.
OK …
That’s all the “content“ I’ve got for today. How ‘s everybody doing ? Got your cooler pads changed yet ?