Dear Readers,
Today was a special election on Proposition 100, which increases the Arizona sales tax by 1 % for 3 years. After 3 years, the sales tax is supposed to automatically repeal itself. We'll see in 3 years if it actually does. I have my doubts.
My wife and I woke up early so we could go vote no on it.
As I write this, not all precincts have released their results yet, but it looks pretty clear that Proposition 100 passed.
Lame!
And the disheartening thing is that it passed by a landslide!
What happened?
I thought there was a conservative revival going on! I thought that the people were finally seeing how wasteful and bloated the government is! I thought people were finally understanding that higher taxes and bigger government is ala-swiffert alawhutiest woopert stooper alawhut! Plus swiffern!
I think the Prop 100 passed because it wasn't publicized enough. Special elections never get as much voter turnout as elections on November 4th. A lot of people just didn't hear about the thing, and um... the people who did hear about it mostly heard about it at school board meetings or public-sector union meetings... from those types of people, you know.
Plus Governer Jan Brewer endorsed it, so that helped. And all the public sector unions were behind, and those groups are very powerful. And the Yes on Prop 100 crowd were a lot more organized and had a lot more money. I heard dozens of "yes on 100" commercials on the radio, but I didn't hear one "no on 100" commercial. Also, I saw a lot more "Yes" signs than "No" signs.
Have you ever noticed that whenever they (and by "they" I mean government people and liberals) want to increase taxes, they always go after the police officers, the fire-fighters, and the schools? That's a slimy emotional appeal... but it seems to work.
But proposition 100 passing isn't the worst thing in the world. I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
(Well technically, I could be sleeping now, so I guess I am losing sleep over it. I've been working 12 hour days for the last 2 and 1/2 weeks, so I'm kind of tired and I don't get to blog as much as I used to. Maybe 12 and 1/2 hours isn't a big deal to some of you hard working folks out there, but to me it is a big deal. If you add commute time, it's like 14 hours a day. Whine whine whine. Why don't I don't get to sponge off of the government and read poetry and be in plays at college anymore! When is it going to be my turn to relax and have government people take care of me? I've been working soooo hard for like, almost 3 weeks now! Ha ha ha.)
But still, um... Proposition 100... I'm mad about it.
Grrrr!!!
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
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I think government workers just voted to give themselves more of our money.:("
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Government workers pay taxes too. And they do need to get paid.
I did not know when the special election was supposed to happen. My parents told me to go vote one morning and I was "oh that's today?"
And when I signed the thing that everyone has to sign, and its all the registered voters in that district, there were very very few signatures. but its not the worst thing that has happened. Or will happen.
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