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2009-06-28 Home Front: Politix
Arizona's budget war is a GOP standoff
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Posted by Fred 2009-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1  "They have been so die-hard on shrinking government and shrinking taxes, they couldn't foresee that there's a minimal level of government required."

How, how did the country and people survived for two hundred years without a lot of 'minimal government'? There's a lot that have become 'essential' that never existed 50 years ago or 30 years ago. Just go back to those budgets and see what was funded and what was not. At the same time check the number of administrative layers that existed between the mayor or governor and the cop, teacher, fireman, or street/road repairman, then and now.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-06-28 07:56||   2009-06-28 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I suggest they go through the record and look at legislation that has been passed over the past 20 years. Starting with the most recent, start repealing it.

But the one thing is going to be prison populations. Since three-strikes laws came into being US prison populations have soared. That is the one thing that is different than before ... the larger percentage of the population in prison, and the one place they are not going to be able to do much cutting.
Posted by crosspatch 2009-06-28 16:00||   2009-06-28 16:00|| Front Page Top

#3 US prison populations have soared Most if not all state chief executives have the power to commute/pardon/kick prisoners out of prisons, and the power is not reviewable. I don't know whether or not the public would be endangered by releasing any of the nonviolent offenders. It's interesting that there has been zero discussion of this anywhere.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-28 16:44||   2009-06-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

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