Tax Day is here, and even after everyone has finished paying Uncle Sam, the people of Arizona will be asked to pay even more.
Early voting starts in one week for the proposed 18 percent increase in the state sales tax. Champions of this tax hike claim the state budget has been cut to the bone. But did policymakers really get rid of all of the fat before asking for another $400 per family each year?
The Goldwater Institute has been explaining since January 2009 that the state of Arizona should fix its spending priorities first, instead of demanding that taxpayers sacrifice even more. This video illustrates how the state budget still has plenty of places to cut:
Video: Have Arizona lawmakers really cut all there is to cut?
Le Templar is Communications Director for the Goldwater Institute
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Goldwater Institute: Other ways to balance state budget without tax increases
Le Templar is the Communications Director for the Goldwater Institute. 
This commercial offers no support of wasteful spending. Publish a real story, not some sensual biased peice of journalism.
Agreed—this is an unthinking ideological screed. In other words, the usual from this bunch. Where is the outrage over the enactment of hundreds of millions in additional tax cuts for their buddies when the State is already $2.4 billion in the hole? Ideology uber alles!!! This current-day Know-Nothing Party, led by Russell Pearce, is running this entire state into the ditch, already starving basic and needed functions like education. Time for a change!!!
It’s been your corporation’s mission to advocate the defunding of Arizona government ever since you first showed up on the scene, so to you, everything the government does is seen as “wasteful.”
At your urging, the Free-riders in the legislature continually defund programs voters have demanded. Has any of you “goldwater” react-tankers actually had to hold a real job? If you had to earn a living in this economy, as opposed to getting paid for sitting on your “intellect,” your opinions might have some merit. But then, they wouldn’t be so ideologically driven; they’d be based, in part, or reality.
State government now engages in a form of domestic terrorism against it’s own people. Pass more taxes or loose jobs and funding for schools! Until they start eliminating waste, firing those who are responsible for the budget crisis, they don’t deserve another red cent!