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Arizona Considers Selling Capitol Buildings
Things are so bad in Arizona that legislators are considering selling the House and Senate buildings where they've met and worked for more than 50 years. Dozens of other state properties may also be sold. The plan is to sell the properties and then lease them back over several years before assuming ownership again. "We've mortgaged the legislative halls," said an exasperated state Rep. Steve Yarbrough, a Chandler Republican. "That just tells you how extraordinary the times are. To me, it's something we're going to have to do no matter how much we find it undesirable." I bet they could get a great price on the Grand Canyon.
How a few moron politicians and illegals invading the state can bury it in a very short amount of time
Not that this will explain all of our problems (due to the fact that there's not only one reason), but just like California we're a major destination for illegal immigrants which send their children to schools, get healthcare, require law enforcement and emergency services, use water and power, etc. They don't pay any taxes.
It's no more fair to say that our problems are entirely due to theft or corruption then it is to say that our problems are entirely due to immigration.
Personally, other than maybe someone like Joe Arpaio and his office (which would not be capable of looting our treasury for tens of billions), I'm not seeing a lot of corruption in this state. Things run pretty smoothly.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Between 1990 and 2000, Arizona's population grew from 3,665,228 to 5,130,632 (40% Increase)
Between 2000 and 2008, Arizona's population grew from 5,130,632 to 6,500,180 (27% increase, or 77% relative to 1990)
Consider also the fact, that most of the people moving to Arizona are going into retirement, and thus will very likely need medical attention/help a couple of years _after_ moving there. Add to that, that the housing boom probably lead to considerable urban sprawl, thus requiring large investments into infrastructure and making this infrastructure harder to maintain.
That does make the budget increase much more understandable. Even before I have looked into matters such as one-time effects that might have lowered the state budget in 2000. Or taken inflation into account. Or...
But just keep spouting the only idea you republicans have left...
Dude, it has been limited, the effects have just been hidden until now by borrowing. This is Reagan's reward to all of the Right thinking knuckleheads heads. Welcome to a the third world. Taxes are the price of civilization.
I guess it's out of the question to quit running red lights, huh
Labor is exempt from Income tax because the laborer paid nothing for his own time that was sold to the corporation his person was allegedly deployed.
Or how about that the Income tax only applies to a corporate sole, and that the first corporate sole to appear on North America was a Bishop over in Nevada.
All court correspondance is to be maid in correct grammar, and given that Statutes in a state define a birth Certificate as a "product of human conception", that would make any degenerate or derivative character in commerce to be a trademark of your labor or property held in general public trust for charity purposes: ANONYMOUS COWARD is property of Anonymous Coward.
And hey, the unanimous Declaration of Indepence of the 50 united States of America is not a fact until it goes through the ringer of abatements or rebuttals unscathed. Or how about that counterfeit corporation that A. Lincoln created over in the District of Columbia called "United States", referencable through Uniform Commercial Code
And here is what their United States is become;
You truly are the worsed troll, and you logged in just to be bitchschlapped?
You can blather on about this all you like, quoting irrelevant shit you don't understand, but it means fuck-all, no one sane believes you, and your theories are worthless. I had a good friend who got seriously burned by this weak ass shit and is now in jail, which is where you will go if you think this crap will get you anywhere in a court of law. So shut up and pay your fucking taxes, you dig it?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton