Investors Business Daily: “The handful of police chiefs [including [Tucson’s Police Chief Roberto Villasenor] who complained to Attorney General Eric Holder about Arizona’s new immigration law don’t represent law enforcement. They have a liberal agenda.”
“long before Arizona’s S.B. 1070 became law, Villasenor’s own county [Pima] signed an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help border agents ID and round up criminal aliens.”
Increasing taxes to get more revenue frequently does not work. The District of Columbia raised it tax on cigarettes from $2 a carton to $2.50 a carton. As a result, DC collected $4.9 million less during the period October 2009 through April 2010 than it did the prior period covering the same months. Extrapolating this number to a year equates to an annual decrease of $8.4 million. The brain-trust idiots who passed the increase predicted that revenue would go up $9.7 million a year.
See “Wealthy Fleeing Tax Happy New Jersey – $70 Billion Lost 2004 – 2008” for another example of increasing taxes with the result of less revenue collected.
Forbes: “It is said that government workers now make, on average, 30% more than private sector workers. Put that fantasy aside. It far underestimates the real figures. By my calculations, government workers make more than twice as much. Government workers are America’s fastest-growing millionaires.”
Arizona Capitol Times: “Arizonans will get the chance to legalize the use of medical marijuana yet again this November – the fourth such opportunity in the past 15 years. The Medical Marijuana initiative became the first to qualify for the 2010 general election ballot after the Secretary of State’s Office verified on June 1 that supporters had turned in the required number of signatures from registered voters.”