Labor, Education & Pensions Issues
May 02, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
(Read the meeting transcript here) Dear Phoenix Taxpayer, At the Wednesday (May 1) meeting of the Phoenix City Council, eight out of the nine council members voted to put one cent of the two-cent city food tax on the road to repeal by January 1, 2014. Thanks to those members (listed below) and thanks to all of [...]
April 30, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
ACTION ALERT Dear Phoenix Taxpayer, At the Wednesday (May 1) meeting of the Phoenix City Council, one of the motions on the table will be to repeal one cent of the never-ending two-cent city food tax, with a firm repeal date of January 1, 2014. Please urge your city council members (email contacts below) to [...]
April 02, 2013 JHealthcare & entitlements, Labor, Education & Pensions
Legislative Update: 2 April 2013 Dear Arizona Taxpayer, The biggest fight of the year at the Arizona Legislature continues to be the battle over the proposed expansion of Medicaid/AHCCCS under ObamaCare. This afternoon (Tuesday, April 2, at 4 pm), a coalition of doctors and other health care professionals (please join us, if you’re in the [...]
March 22, 2013 JLabor, Education & Pensions, Taxes
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for its great piece on efforts by Arizona judges to block much-needed pension reforms. Political Diary Unequal Protection
February 25, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Labor, Education & Pensions
IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT To all Arizona Taxpayers, Last Thursday (February 21), four GOP state senators failed to do the right thing by Arizona’s taxpayers, preventing SB 1182, a Paycheck Protection union reform bill (description below), from passing in the Arizona Senate. The following four Senators joined all of the Senate Democrats in voting No on [...]