AZ Supreme Court: Legislators acted illegally in description of education sales tax initiative

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• Mike McClellan posted at 6:57 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.

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  Most revealing paragraph of the article? This one:

  "Senate Majority Leader Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, questioned the authority of the court to review the wording, much less order a rewrite. He suggested lawmakers should ignore the order."

  Biggs -- who has liked to call himself an "originalist" when it comes to the Constitution -- blithely suggests the Republicans simply ignore the state Supreme Court.

  Apparently, Biggs the "originalist" doesn't understand an original part of the state (and federal) constitution, that of checks and balances.

  I guess Biggs is for the Constitution unless he's against it.

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• Dale Whiting posted at 7:49 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.

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  Mike,

  You've touched again on something. When we read about "Judicial Activism" we usuallly see a criticism that a judge has made new law as if they were seating in the legislature and not followed the constitution. The person speaking almost invariably is a conservative. When we see a judge praised for a ruling, the speaker can be either a liberal or a conservative. But the conservative will praise the ruling for avoiding judicial activism and for following the constitution. The liberal will just say the ruling makes sense.

  But neither of them, not the conservative and not the liberal, will have studied both the ruling and the law [precedent] proceeding it. The best reading comes when studying Supreme Court rulings, either state for federal. Each side disputes the call of the other side. It's better reading that comic books, almost as good as was Mad Magazine![beam]

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• chatmandu002 posted at 9:21 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.

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  Vote NO on the tax increase initiative.

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• vera_brown posted at 11:08 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.

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• Suelee posted at 5:14 am on Sat, Aug 18, 2012.

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  This tax was approved as a 3 year temporary tax to help schools with an unexpected decrease in funding due to the economy tanking. This was to allow schools to adjust to the NEW REALITY that the economy and home values were not going to return to the hyper-inflated levels of 2008. They have now had almost 3 years to adjust to this new reality. As a taxpayer, I cannot justify extending this tax.

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• downtownresident posted at 8:18 am on Sat, Aug 18, 2012.

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  Biggs is a whiner, and a big baby.
  For him to whine about judicial activism is a travesty of justice.
  These......these.......politicians, and I use the term with disgust and contempt for Biggs and his minions are a pimple on the rear of Arizona.
  Andy, you're just a big baby, who whines and cries injustice when he doesn't get his ILLEGAL way sickens me.
  Andy, you are a waste of skin. Is Russell Pearce your father????

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• chuckles3 posted at 5:25 pm on Mon, Aug 20, 2012.

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  'And unlike the existing measure, the proceeds would be earmarked for specific purposes, mainly K-12 education but also health care for children and road construction.'

  Hmm...sounds like more than an education tax to me. Are our roads really in that bad a shape? And, with Obamacare, why do we need extra money for healthcare for children?

  I will be voting 'no' for this slush fund for the unions.

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• samkat posted at 5:58 pm on Mon, Aug 20, 2012.

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  If it is lock box tax revenue that our trusty so called conservative legislators cannot raid, and it benefits public schools, I support it. I wonder if ole Andy was a part of the panel. :-)

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