WHO OUR STATE GOP LEGISLATORS LOVE

It's sure not the lower and middle classes because they voted to approve a flat tax which shifts the burden to those making less than $100K.   This has not gone unnoticed in the local media.

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Senate should reject unfair flat-tax bill
Mar. 27, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

A proposed flat tax would radically shift the income-tax burden in Arizona: Eighty-eight percent of Arizona filers, who earn $100,000 or less a year, would pay more. The wealthiest 12 percent would see dramatic cuts.

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Outcry sparking over Arizona flat tax bill proposal
Posted: 03/25/2011
By: Angie Holdsworth
ABC15.CON - PHOENIX

PHOENIX - A flat tax bill that is making its way through the state legislature could increase taxes for 88 percent of taxpayers.

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Flat tax plan could raise most tax bills
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 7:09 PM Updated: Mar 25, 2011 7:16 PM
By Craig Smith, Reporter
KGUN9.COM -TUCSON
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Arizona lawmakers are thinking of simplifying your state income tax and you may be simply steamed at the extra cash that might disappear from your wallet.
Here's how the flat tax could work out for you:

If your adjusted gross income is less than ten thousand dollars the average state income tax is a dollar. With the flat tax it would be about $200---a jump of almost 20,000 percent.

Someone making between forty and fifty thousand would see an average bill jump $175---a 29 percent hike.

Above a hundred thousand income the flat tax probably saves you money. Average savings: $321 dollars---12.6 percent.

The tax savings get better the more you make: savings of 30, 42, 45 percent. Someone who makes more than five million, saves almost a quarter million.

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Senate panel OKs bill to flatten Ariz. income tax
By PAUL DAVENPORT
BLOOMBERG NEWS

PHOENIX

A "flat tax" bill to rewrite the state individual income tax is nearing the finish line at the Legislature, setting the stage for changes that would have the Arizona's wealthiest taxpayers paying less while nearly nine of every 10 Arizonans pay more.

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Proposed flat tax would cost more for many
by KTAR.com PHOENIX (March 25th, 2011 @ 3:09pm)
If a proposed one-size-fits-all flat tax were to take effect a report by the Arizona Republic says 88 percent of Arizona filers would pay more while taxes would be cut for the 12 percent of those whose income is more than $100,000 a year.