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Arizona’s policymakers are still depending on technocrats to help shape decisions aimed at influencing the economy. Nowhere is this truer than in tax policy, where a debate is raging over...

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Tags: Jim Rounds is a familiar figure at the Capitol. He served as a senior economist and budget analyst at the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, Rounds Consulting Group., and as senior vice president of Elliott D. Pollack & Company. He now runs his own consulting firm

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