The Republicans in the Arizona Legislature passed a budget that includes cuts to the State’s Medicaid program (AHCCCS) $385 million affecting 310,000 people.  Peter Fine (CEO of Banner Health) reported on March 9^th in the Arizona Republic on a survey released by ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business predicting 42,000 jobs lost – most of them high paying if these cuts were made. 

On Monday the legislature was trying to pass tax cuts they HOPE will bring in an unspecified number of manufacturing jobs.   It will cost Arizona as much as $942 million.  Is there logic here somewhere?  Loose 42,000 jobs and cost 310,000 people their healthcare while simultaneously hoping to get an unspecified number of jobs and winding up with a total of hundreds of millions more in budget deficit.

By the way they will also spend $8.3 million on a special election rather than raise the necessary taxes themselves.