Maintain Existing Sales Tax Rate
Protect Arizona Families & Businesses from Excessive Taxes
Proposal:
The current tax should remain at the 5.6% to protect families and small businesses.
Summary of Contingency Cuts if PROP 100 Fails:
As a result, the contingency budget enacted by the legislature and signed by the Governor will be enacted. This contingency budget (see SB1001 for the seventh special session) calls for $862 million of cuts, including:
$428 M Department of Education $114 M Health Care $107 M Universities $ 63 M Department of Corrections $ 50 M Department of Economic Security $ 40 M Dept of Human Services $ 15 M Community Colleges $ 10 M Public Safety $ 10 M Judiciary $ 2 M Legislative Body
Supporters:
Senator John McCain
Senator Jon Kyl
Republican Candidate for Governor Buz Mills
Republican Candidate for Governor Dean Martin
AX the TAX Committee, Chair Thayer Verschoor
State Senator Sylvia Allen
State Senator Ron Gould
State Senator Chuck Gray
State Senator Russell Pearce
State Representative Judy Burges
State Representative Laurin Hendrix
State Representative Carl Seel
State Representative David Stevens
Hon. J.D. Hayworth
Hon. Sam Crump
Hon. David Schweikert
Hon. David Smith
Rich Davis
John Fillmore
Tom Forese
Lori Klein
Michelle Ugenti
Legislative Language of Contingency Tax Cuts in SB1001:
Sec. 149. Contingency budget; agency reductions; applicability
A. If proposition 100 is not approved by the voters at the May 18, 2010 special election, notwithstanding any other law, the following state general fund amounts are reduced from appropriations made to state agencies in fiscal year 2010-2011 as listed below:
1. Department of administration - $342,500.
2. Office of administrative hearings - $44,800.
3. Arizona department of agriculture - $414,400.
4. Arizona health care cost containment system - $114,000,000.
5. Commission on the arts - $32,700.
6. Attorney general - $867,500.
7. State capital post conviction defender office - $31,200.
8. State board for charter schools - $79,600.
9. Department of commerce - $71,700.
10. Community colleges - $13,342,600.
11. Corporation commission - $28,400.
12. State department of corrections - $63,167,200.
13. Arizona state schools for the deaf & the blind - $2,070,700.
14. Department of economic security - $50,500,000.
15. Department of education - $428,568,000.
16. Department of emergency and military affairs - $1,594,000.
17. Department of environmental quality - $337,500.
18. Office of equal opportunity - $9,500.
19. Department of financial institutions - $142,600.
20. Department of fire, building and life safety - $1,936,300.
21. State forester - $156,700.
22. Arizona geological survey - $38,800.
23. Government information technology agency - $36,500.
24. Office of the Governor - $334,200.
25. Governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting - $95,300.
26. Department of health services - $40,000,000.
27. Arizona historical society - $93,500.
28. Prescott historical society - $33,300.
29. Independent redistricting commission - $25,000.
30. Arizona commission of Indian affairs - $3,100.
31. Department of insurance - $270,600. 32. Judiciary:
Supreme court - $1,557,300.
Court of Appeals - $950,100.
Superior Court - $7,922,100.
33. Department of juvenile corrections - $5,833,100.
34. State land department - $66,800.
35. Law enforcement merit system council - $3,400.
36. Legislature:
Auditor general - $792,400.
House of representatives - $538,100.
Joint legislative budget committee - $121,600.
Legislative council - $234,000.
Senate - $351,800.
37. Board of medical student loans - $20,200.
38. State mine inspector - $52,900.
39. Department of mines and mineral resources - $16,100.
40. Arizona navigable stream adjudication commission - $6,700.
41. Arizona pioneers' home - $78,100.
42. Commission for postsecondary education - $121,000.
43. Department of public safety - $10,940,400.
44. Arizona department of racing - $189,800.
45. Radiation regulatory agency - $37,400.
46. Real estate department - $145,700.
47. Department of revenue - $2,173,300.
48. School facilities board - $1,000,000.
49. Department of state-secretary of state - $651,900.
50. State board of tax appeals - $12,400.
51. Department of transportation - $2,600.
52. State treasurer - $176,000.
53. Universities:
Arizona board of regents - $2,074,000.
Arizona state university - main campus - $39,275,000.
Arizona state university - east campus - $3,021,000.
Arizona state university - west campus - $5,288,000.
Northern Arizona university - $16,020,000.
University of Arizona - main campus - $32,652,000.
University of Arizona - health sciences center - $8,814,000.
54. Department of veterans' services - $259,900.
55. Department of water resources - $322,300.
56. Department of weights and measures - $58,400.
B. If proposition 100 is not approved by the voters at the May 18, 2010 special election, in addition to the $10,000,000 reduction for charter school additional assistance specified in section 31 of this act, the reduction computed for the department of education for basic state aid in subsection A of this section includes an additional $31,000,000 reduction for charter school additional assistance.
Sec. 150. Department of economic security; appropriation
If the voters approve the repeal of title 8, chapter 13, Arizona Revised Statutes, at the next general election, in addition to any other appropriation made in fiscal year 2010-2011, the sum of $40,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2010-2011 to the department of economic security. The department may use a portion of these monies to increase reimbursement rates for community service providers and independent service agreement providers contracting with the division of developmental disabilities.