Up for a vote-Arizona's state sales tax

Ask me why I won’t give the state legislature more of my hard-earned money.

The state of Arizona is broke. The state’s budget is millions of dollars in the red. One of the solutions being proposed right now: raise sales tax to increase revenue. That will be put to a vote in the coming weeks. Raising sales tax punishes the poor and struggling. I will not support that. The way I see it, the state of Arizona has been squandering my money anyway.

Raising the sales tax will also hurt small businesses, the very businesses that are re-circulating the most money within our community.

This year the state legislature awarded a 5 million dollar office supplies contract to a business who’s corporate head quarters are outside Arizona and doesn’t even have a local distribution center. That contract created zero jobs in the Arizona economy.

Pay attention to leakages of our wealth. Don't export my dollars to another state. Keep our money in our economy for our civic institutions.

According to a study done in 2007 by Civic Economics, an economic analysis and strategic planning consultancy, if that contract had been awarded to a locally owned office supply retailer, Wist, 1⁄2 million dollars would have remained and been recirculated in the Arizona economy.

State of Arizona: pay attention to leakages of wealth. Don't export my money to another state. Keep our money in our economy for our civic institutions.