Yavapai County proves that the cities are not the only level of government that has experienced this explosion in government spending. While the increase in spending by these cities and county is very apparent, similar spending patterns are repeated statewide by most municipal and county governments. Just to be fair, let's take one last minute to look at state government growth during the 1990s for comparison. From all of this growth, it is obvious that the lessons of the 1980s have been forgotten. This leaves Arizona living on borrowed time, as future downturns in the economy will cause a shortfall in revenue.
Government spending is still out of control.
Conservative lawmakers were unsuccessful in their attempts to make spending cuts instead of tax increases during the recent special session on education. If state and local officials cannot find the political will to tighten their fiscal belts, then we, the voters, must find a means to create the will for them. Proposition 107 is just such a means. Proposition 107 is a ballot measure that will allow Arizonans for the first time to vote to reduce taxation. While there is no shortage of ballot measures that ask for our support to increase taxes, Proposition 107 is the first meaningful tax reform that reduces taxes to ever hit the ballot.