A poll released by supporters of the one-cent sales-tax proposal before Arizona voters shows a majority support it:
With the May 18th election just 64 days away, nearly 6 in 10 likely special election voters say they will vote yes on Proposition 100, a three-year, one-cent increase to Arizona’s sales tax meant to protect education, public safety and health care.
A telephone survey of 506 likely voters, conducted in late February by veteran polling group Moore Information, used the exact ballot language voters will encounter
in the upcoming election:
A ‘yes’ vote shall have the effect of temporarily increasing the state transaction privilege sales and use tax by one cent per dollar for three years to fund primary and secondary education, health and human services and public safety.
A ‘no’ vote shall have the effect of keeping the state transaction privilege sales and use taxes at their current levels.”
More than 39 percent of those surveyed reported they would “definitely vote yes” on Proposition 100, while more than 19 percent described themselves as “likely to vote yes.” By contrast, 28 percent described themselves as “definite” no voters, with another 7 percent calling themselves “likely to vote no.”
Only 7 percent of likely voters described themselves as undecided.
“We feel good about these results — good and determined to keep explaining to Arizona’s voters why we need Proposition 100,” said Pat Quinn, co-chairman of YES ON 100, the non-partisan coalition supporting the ballot measure. “People responded well to the language on the ballot, but we need to keep driving home how much this temporary infusion of revenue will mean to schools, neighborhoods and Arizonans in need. Make no mistake, we’re in a battle here, one our state needs to win. We need to fight for every last vote to make sure that happens.”
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2010.
Jim,
A yes vote on prop. 100?
On March 4th Charlie Rose interviewed Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the committee to oversee TARP. Her general opinion was that the economy is about to get alot worse. She said that record failings of mostly small banks would increase this year above the 140 of 2009(mostly caused by residential foreclosures), and that of the 8000 banks overseen by FDIC, nearly 3000 mid-sized banks were on the endangered list because of over-concentration in commercial real estate mortgages. These commercial notes were going to begin to come due in the 3rd and 4th quarters of this year and continue for the next two years. In other words, the proverbial other shoe is about to drop, because the credit to accomplish these refinances is still not available.
As you know, our home state is already in terrible fiscal shape; for alot of reasons, but centered on banking and real estate. The scenario described by Ms. Warren may be bad news for alot of states, but for Arizona it may well be our tipping point into insolvency.
For 20 years now our legislature has been cutting taxes. HB 2250 a bill that has passed the House and is awaiting action in the Senate, will diminish our state’s revenues by nearly another billion annually. The tax cuts are predominantly for the wealthy and corporations, and it is of course being called a “jobs creation bill”.
A yes vote on prop. 100 will make us complicit in the destruction of our state government, our public schools, our way of life. It is a blatant transferal of tax responsibility to the middle class (what’s left of it), and will not create an additional revenue stream, it will just make it easier for the fascists who have taken over control of Arizona to make HB 2250 law.
Their goal is not to make our public schools more efficient, it is to eliminate them. Their goal is not just to make our state government smaller, but to destroy it.
Wake up people, and begin to do what is neccessary to save our state.
Robert Alexander Dumas