Hillary-ous!kalm wrote:It's contagious and Arizona wants to use it against any disagreeable law. I'm so glad the state government has decided to the give people back their power.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStor ... e-37730786Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday signed legislation cutting state shared revenue from municipalities and counties that pass regulations like plastic bag bans that conflict with state law.
The action came hours after the organization representing all 91 Arizona cities and towns called on the Republican governor to veto the bill. The letter to Ducey from the League of Arizona Cities and Towns says the measure is heavy-handed and intrusive, and it minimizes the important role of local elected officials.
"The elimination of shared revenue from cities and towns is a crippling and unjust penalty since it represents an average of 40 percent of a city's general fund," said the letter signed by the mayors of Tempe, Lake Havasu City and Chandler in the roles as league leaders.
But Ducey was unpersuaded. He had vowed in his state-of-the-state address to cut state shared revenue to any city that adopted a minimum wage that was higher than the state's, even though the law allows that.
"As Governor Ducey has made clear, for Arizona to be competitive, we can't have a patchwork of different laws across the state," spokeswoman Annie Dockendorff said in a statement. "This legislation ensures everyone is playing by the same rules."
The state sent nearly $1.1 billion from income and sales taxes to 91 cities and towns in the budget year that ended June 30.
The Republican-dominated Arizona Legislature has taken a firm stance in recent years against cities that enact laws popular in liberal enclaves, such as plastic-bag bans and rules governing energy efficiency in buildings.
All of those folks like dback that WANT the federal government to grow and WANT Democrat Obama & Co. to overrule their Republican led state's rights, and to withhold federal funding from the state for things they don't like - in order to protect their liberal views, are now complaining that the state is using the same tactics against their liberal cities.
You can't make this stuff up!!!!
