Recently, the Arizona Republic featured the latest in a series of articles that pop up every few years highlighting Arizona's economic "advantages" over California.
Ha Ha Ha.
The articles always boil down to two things: lower taxes and lower wages. As in "please move your business to Arizona, where you'll pay less taxes and you won't have to pay your employees a decent wage!"
So please overlook the fact that our public schools are battling it out with Alabama and Mississippi in a close race to the bottom. Please forget that our legislature is controlled by gun nuts, birthers, and the "build the dang fence" Tea Party crowd. Please forget that our health care system is broken and our arts organizations are always on life support.
Because those things don't really enter into "quality of life" now do they?
No, the important thing is that if you come here, you'll pay less in taxes and less in wages and imagine what that will do for your bottom line!!
Gee, I wonder what kind of employers that sort of thinking attracts?
And I wonder what that does to what's left of the middle class?
And the roads and schools and all the other services that taxes pay for?
But, as my late mother used to say, "beggars can't be choosers", so what the hell, Welcome to Arizona!!!"
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