Wooing business with tax cuts doesnβt work
Re: the May 6 article βArizona eyes new hurdle for SNAP.β
According to the article, 14 of 15 Arizona counties have high enough unemployment rates or insufficient jobs to qualify for a βwork to qualify ruleβ waiver for food assistance. After years and years of Republicans passing massive tax cuts for businesses so they will bring jobs to Arizona, where are the jobs? Tax cuts donβt work. Think about that when you vote.
Rob Modica
Foothills
What drives so many people out of Mexico?
Re: the May 8 column βStudent βDreamerβ finds refuge on the stage.β
I read and enjoy Ernesto Portilloβs columns, including his column about Perla Vanesa Barraza, a young woman brought here illegally more than 20 years ago at age 3 with her sister by her parents from Tijuana, Mexico.
A question I wish had been answered by Ernesto is what Perlaβs life might have been like in Tijuana had her family remained there? What are the pressures pushing people to make very dangerous trips from Mexico and other Latin American countries? Are migrants cowards for not staying and making changes in their countries rather than running away? I wish someone could provide that part of this ongoing story so we could determine if the U.S. could do something to help change Mexico.
Jacqueline OβConnor
Sierra Vista
Koch cartoons prove Fitz is out of touch
Re: the May 10 cartoon.
I see that, once again, David Fitzsimmons woke realizing his job calls for him to have an awareness of current events and that he had absolutely no idea of what is going on in the real world, one that includes both Democrats and Republicans and their donors. What else would explain his recurring boorish Koch brothers βcartoonβ? I would think even his far-left fans, the only ones he has, would expect more.
Kevin Kaatz
Oro Valley
Hey, NC, consider hiring bathroom monitors
Iβm wondering how North Carolina will enforce its new βbathroomβ law. Gov. Pat McCrory probably plans to organize a State Gender Police force, one of its officers to be stationed in every public restroom. Anyone wishing to use the facilities would simply need to show a birth certificate or strip down for a visual examination in order to obtain an official urinal or stall permit. Imagine the jobs this will create!
Robert Swaim
East side
Numbers donβt lie: Itβs time to oust legislators
Hooray for the state of Arizona for passing its $9.6 billion budget! As of last year, Arizona is one of 39 βSinkhole Statesβ without enough assets to cover its debts. Arizona ranked 20th, with $9.4 billion in assets and $15.4 billion in bills. In other words, Arizona owes more than it owns.
Between 2014 and 2015 total government spending in Arizona increased by $2.3 billion (a 7.3 percent increase). It is easy to see that our leadership (or not) in Phoenix is not doing its job. Maybe itβs time to take a closer look at our legislators and governor and send them packing on the next election cycle.
David Keating
East side
