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Balancing Acts: Tax Cuts and Public Policy in Arizona
Arizona Policy Choices 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About Arizona Policy Choices by Rob Melnick
Why Study Tax Cuts in Arizona Now?
Rob Melnick, Director
Morrison Institute for Public Policy
The Cuts in Context
John Stuart Hall, Professor
School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
Policy Choice: Make Tax Policy
The Facts of the Matter: Arizona’s Tax Cuts
Tom Rex, Research Manager
Center for Business Research, Arizona State University
© State's Income Tax Below U.S. Average
But Sales Tax Among 10 Highest
Pat Flannery, The Arizona Republic
Taxes: The Eternal Debate
Nancy Welch, Senior Research Analyst
Morrison Institute for Public Policy
© Our Outmoded Tax Systems
Ronald Snell, State Legislatures
Policy Choice: Continue the Cuts
A Sober Case for Tax Cut Policies
Robert Robb, Editorial Writer, The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Legislature and Tax Cuts
Marc Spitzer, Senator, Arizona Senate
Why Tax Income?
Thomas P. McGovern, Special Assistant Attorney General,
Office of the Attorney General
© The States Move to the Supply Side
Stephen Moore, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Policy Choice: Make Investments in Arizona
The Price of a Civilized Society
Carol Kamin, Executive Director, Children's Action Alliance
Arizona’s Investment Opportunities
George Miller, Mayor, City of Tucson
Spend Today—Or Invest in Tomorrow?
Jim Kiser, Editorial Page Editor, The Arizona Daily Star
Tax Cuts at Whose Cost?
Monsignor Edward Ryle, Executive Director, Arizona Catholic Conference
© Back-to-Basics Government
E. J. Dionne, Jr., The Washington Post
Finding the Money
Penelope Lemov, Governing
Policy Choice: Consider the Consequences
A Study of the Arizona State Tax Reduction Program
Frank Sackton, Professor Emeritus
School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
© Blue-chip Times
Hal Hovey, State Government News
© States Control Spending Despite the Tax Windfalls
David Cay Johnston, The New York Times
© States Are Cutting Taxes—Unless You Smoke
Ann Reilly Dowd, MONEY