Comments on: Officials: Budget cuts will increase boating dangers http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/03/11/officials-budget-cuts-will-increase-boating-dangers/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Tue, 21 May 2013 00:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PM Connors http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/03/11/officials-budget-cuts-will-increase-boating-dangers/comment-page-1/#comment-13960 PM Connors Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:54:25 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=21596#comment-13960 Boaters need to be held responsible (like vehicle operators on the road) for their own safety, not the taxpayer. This could be off the mark, but the issue of tax credits... isn't that sort of like counting chickens before they are hatched when counting credits as revenue. Credits are incentives. Only dems seem to believe a credit is a lost treasure meant to be spent. Moreover, arguments decrying private schools on the issue are disingenuous when a sweeping and partly false indictment is made. Boaters need to be held responsible (like vehicle operators on the road) for their own safety, not the taxpayer.

This could be off the mark, but the issue of tax credits… isn’t that sort of like counting chickens before they are hatched when counting credits as revenue. Credits are incentives. Only dems seem to believe a credit is a lost treasure meant to be spent. Moreover, arguments decrying private schools on the issue are disingenuous when a sweeping and partly false indictment is made.

]]> By: Janice Shelton http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/03/11/officials-budget-cuts-will-increase-boating-dangers/comment-page-1/#comment-13116 Janice Shelton Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:53:13 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=21596#comment-13116 A suspension of tax credits (general fund money) until the state can afford them would be a great way to reduce the huge budget deficit. Per the latest report from AzDOR, a minimum of over $228 million was claimed by individuals in 2008 and a minimum of over $260.5 million was claimed by corporations in 2007 (latest figures available). Suspending tax credits alone would reduce the deficit by almost half a billion dollars. Why isn't this being considered? Tax credits are general fund money that we don't have! Instead of continuing to devastate critical education, health and human services, law enforcement , and other agency programs (boater safety), suspend the tax credits. Instead, there is legislation to increase the tax credits for private schools which has been shown to be ill used by most Student Tuition Organizations. Where is the logic???? A suspension of tax credits (general fund money) until the state can afford them would be a great way to reduce the huge budget deficit. Per the latest report from AzDOR, a minimum of over $228 million was claimed by individuals in 2008 and a minimum of over $260.5 million was claimed by corporations in 2007 (latest figures available). Suspending tax credits alone would reduce the deficit by almost half a billion dollars. Why isn’t this being considered? Tax credits are general fund money that we don’t have! Instead of continuing to devastate critical education, health and human services, law enforcement , and other agency programs (boater safety), suspend the tax credits.

Instead, there is legislation to increase the tax credits for private schools which has been shown to be ill used by most Student Tuition Organizations. Where is the logic????

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