ARIZONA DODGES A WINGNUT BULLET

The proposal to increase the state taxes for everyone making less than $100K is dead for the present session of the legislature but Republican Steve Court,  the sponsor of the bill,  vows to try again.  Court seems to want to sell this as an egalitarian measure:

Court, however, still backs the plan.

"I think you need to be able to educate people that, yes, you're getting rid of the deductions," he said. "But we're also slashing the rate way down."

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"That's what we're going to have to work on over the summer, is trying to show that the current system of graduated rates and multiple deductions and exemptions leads to everyone paying a different tax rate," he said. "I would rather see everyone pay the same rate so that you're proportional to your income."