How Can the #1 ‘Pro-Life’ State Be #50 in Child Wellbeing? (video)
Republicans perpetuate the myth of the "budget surplus." It gives them cover when they continue chronically low social safety net funding even in times of plenty.
Several times during the tax cut debates on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Ben Toma and other Republicans repeated the mantra that Arizona has a “budget surplus”. The only reason that we have funds that have not been allocated is because we have had decades of budget cuts and chronic underfunding of important program…
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