guess what....

[keith smith]

Part of the problem is our state is spending almost twice what it did 5 years ago.  All they need to do is cut back on their spending.
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Keith Smith


--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Lyle Tuttle <L.tuttle at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Lyle Tuttle <L.tuttle at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: guess what....
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:33 PM
> 
>  
> At 08:00 PM 7/29/2009, you wrote:
> 
> I moved here
> and the illegal
> alien problem doesn't seem to be a problem. I had
> forgotten about it!
> Almost everyone here is an alien of some sort (legal or
> not).
> 
> Perhaps you are looking at the wrong source.....we now have
> a $3 Billion
> deficit.....check out these numbers in bold blue.........
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Maricopa County Conservative Examiner
> 
> 
> 
> 
> AP-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
> 
> 
> Arizona Governor Jan Brewer issued a
> 
> press release on Monday, July 27th indicating that she
> intends to
> leave the calendar for the week of July 27th through August
> 2nd, “open
> for budget meetings with the Arizona legislature.”
> 
> 
> The state is facing a significant
> 
> financial crisis that has resulted in a 2 billion
> dollar shortfall
> after the Governor rejected a balanced budget passed by
> lawmakers that
> she said, “cut too deeply from critical state services
> such as K-12
> education and health care for the poor.” The Governor
> called a special
> session that began on July 6th, but it has proven
> unproductive since many
> lawmakers were attending conferences and events hosted by
> lobbyists back
> east, away from the hot weather and hotter budget issue.
> 
> 
> Currently, the Governor has provided the legislature with a
> blueprint for
> 
> closing the revenue gap that includes an odd assortment
> of tax
> increases and other unusual measures. Among the proposals
> is the sale and
> lease back of government owned buildings and prisons, as
> well as
> borrowing against future lottery income. Critics contend
> that this is a
> short sighted approach to the budget, since the leases on
> the buildings
> will become an expense, and vital future lottery revenue
> will be
> unavailable, committed instead to this year’s budget.
> 
> 
> Particularly troubling are the proposed tax increases
> during what is
> arguably the worst recession the state has ever faced. The
> Governor’s tax
> plan includes a one cent increase in the sales tax, which
> translates into
> a
> 
> $438 a year cost to the average family. Allowing the
> state
> equalization tax rollback to expire will place an
> additional $58 per year
> property tax burden on an owner of a $270,000 home. These
> increases are
> in addition to the reduction in services such as the 220
> million cut to
> the K-12 education system and the 40 million cut to the
> state University
> system.
> 
> 
> Interestingly,
> there is no mention
> of curtailing the cost of illegal immigration in any state
> budget plan.
> 
> A 2004 study places the cost of educating the children
> of Arizona
> illegal aliens at 820 million annually. The uncompensated
> medical
> expenses are estimated to be 400 million, and the cost to
> incarcerate
> illegal alien prisoners is 80 million annually. Even
> accounting for a
> positive economic impact of 257 million, the price tag for
> Arizonans to
> subsidize the illegal population is almost 1 billion every
> year.
> 
> 
> The illegal immigration problem accounts for nearly half of
> the entire
> budget deficit. The savings would be enough to completely
> eliminate the
> need for a sales tax increase, or in the alternative,
> restore all of the
> operating budget reductions for 2010.
> 
> 
> These are not theoretical numbers. Next year, Arizonans
> will have less
> for themselves and their families, and the quality of their
> children’s
> education will be degraded. Services for the states poor
> will also be
> lessened in order to support the illegal alien community.
> 
> 
> One can only hope that lawmakers use of tax dollars mirrors
> their
> constituents’ priorities, and that Arizona families
> approve of paying
> more in taxes and receiving less in services for the
> benefit of illegal
> aliens.
> 
>  
> 
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