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If the favorite GOP campaign promise of a NO NEW TAX PLEDGE falls in the forest and there is no one who remembers signing and committing to it……did it ever really exist ???
Heck of a question for the puzzle section of the 8th grade AIMS test, huh? Helluva question for NO NEW TAXES campaign mockingbirds Rep. Carl Seel, Rep. Sam Crump, Rep. Debbie Lesko, Rep. Judy Burges, Senate President Bob Burns, Sen. Linda Gray, and on and on and on. Maybe we should call them SINators.
The cliché that ‘promises are made to be broken’ is nowhere more true than in politics – both local and national. That’s no secret. Willy Wonka also prided himself in the Art of Truthiness and used all of its deceptive devices. He has company.
Mr. Wonka has apparently parked his Chocolate Factory at the Arizona State Capitol lawn; serving up a NEW kind of MATH to GOP Legislators…..and they’re puffin’ up like the Blueberry Gum Girl.
Wonka has appointed a NEW MATH Sheriff & his name is Senator Russell Pearce. (WHO home-schooled this guy?)
[ NEWS*FLASH*……For those who have read a REAL letter or e-mail penned by Pearce himself (sans proof reading), his NEW MATH skills are just as bad as his ability to spell and compose coherent sentences. ]
Last week, Senator Pearce (R-Mesa) torpedoed the formerly benign SB-1185 with an ominous Strike Everything (SE) amendment containing an EMERGENCY clause and a NEW MATH formula to recoup Arizona ’s projected tax revenue shortfalls for FY 08-09 and FY 09-10.
[ CLICK HERE to see the NEW SB-1185 ]
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed the emergency bill (22-4-4) and ran it over to the House. The House UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate version of the emergency bill (52-0-8) and ran it back over to the Senate. The Senate handed it over to Governor Brewer on Monday. This Willy Wonka legislation is the FIRST bill sent to Governor Brewer this year. She’s expected to sign it this week.
SB-1185, with its adopted SE, was created after Senator Russell Pearce heard testimony (weeks ago) from the Department of Revenue. The DOR predicted AZ's financial impact resulting from President Obama’s Making Work Pay payroll-based tax credit, which lowered federal withholding $ and returned those dollars to each wage earner. That program was fully implemented on April 1, 2009.
Small problem.
Arizona Statutes require wage earners to elect (by signing a W-4) a % of federal withholding to be sent to the Department of Revenue each payday. If the Feds lower their % of wages withheld, that total (but lower) $$$ figure (per paycheck) is then used (by AZ law) as the BASIS amount to calculate Arizona ’s % of your paycheck withholding.
Lower Federal withholding = Lower Arizona withholding.
Small problem.
Arizona Legislators decided that they can’t afford to allow wage earners to pay the State less than you were paying them a few months ago. They want a FREE LOAN & said so themselves. They’ve already appropriated your anticipated AZ withholding $$ for FY 08-09. The fiscal year ends on June 30, 2009 and they had no choice but to…..
RAISE YOUR TAXES !
The RUSSELL PEARCE SB-1185 NEW MATH chart is below.
SB-1185 makes the following changes to the withholding tax rates (10% rate is only an option for those making less than $15,000/year).
Proposed | Proposed | ||
Current | May-Dec09 | Jan-Jun10 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | |
10 | 11.5 | 10.7 | |
19 | 21.9 | 20.3 | |
23 | 26.5 | 24.5 | |
25 | 28.8 | 26.7 | |
31 | 35.7 | 33.1 | |
37 | 42.6 | 39.5 |
[ CLICK HERE to read the full summary/fact sheet for SB-1185 ]
I have to say it again…
THEY RAISED YOUR TAXES !
THEY LIED.
Of course, the self-appointed and self-delusional MORAL MAJORITY (using that term very loosely here folks) decided that they weren’t really raising your taxes. They said they're just keeping (approximately) the same $ amount per paycheck – that you’ve been paying. Without your permission. So, every single AZ W-4 form on file at HR departments across the State, has now been MANDATED by SB-1185 as null & void. They’ll get around to changing the laws, for real, in 2010….but until then…..
Arizona Republicans JUST ALLOWED A POLICE STATE TACTIC to be enacted by Emergency legislation.
Oh, the memories of the Republican campaign mailers that flooded mailboxes mere months ago – where everyone not sanctioned by the Maricopa County Republican Executive Committee was a LIAR, LIAR, LIAR. These mailers were filled with distasteful, righteous indignation and harsh criticism of ALL things not found under Constantin Querard’s “special campaign definition” of the “Razor’s Edge of Heaven”…..It must be......
The THIN RED LINE.
The THIN RED LINE is now a home to LIARS – all in Jesus’ name. Welcome to the real world - LIARS. All of that Clean Dirty Campaign $$ wasted on more WONKS with no balls, no conscience and no memory. See you in September of 2010.
POO on the various Taxpayer Advocacy groups that are so quick to brown-nose and fluff the THIN RED LINE Legislators during election season but have been silent on RUSSELL PEARCE'S NEW MATH that raised taxes. Too busy shopping for tea bags, I guess.
This legislative session has been just HORRIBLE. We’ve had several weeks of the Republican Promised Ones giving daily lessons from their chambers on the benefits of fiscally prudent “Moral Relativism”; a world-view philosophy (Wonkaism) that Republicans normally accuse public school teachers of practicing while they indoctrinate the youth of Arizona and America in its evil ways.
Hey, if it’s good enough for the Legislators….. it’s good enough for the teachers.
So, scoot over AEA and NEA members and sympathizers!! Make room on your Crazy Train for a gaggle of Arizona ’s Legislators rollin’ on the Highway to Hell with you. The children are watching.
2 comments:
This is a TRUE CONVERSATION that took place after the entire family read this post aloud!
CHILD: "So, is WONKA a maniac like THEM?"
DAD: "Who is 'them'?"
CHILD: "You know, Crump & Seel and that other dude."
These creeps give us Oompa Loompa's a bad name.
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