Governor Ducey Trimming Fat from State's Bloated Spending

Tom Jenney, president of Americans for Prosperity Arizona Chapter, writes ...The wailing and moaning you're about to hear on your television and see in your newspaper is the sound of Arizona's spending lobbies after they read the executive budget released today by Arizona's new Governor, Doug Ducey.TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT GOV. DUCEY'S BUDGETSupporters of Big Government will HATE this budget:●  The school district bureaucrats who steal money from the students and teachers in our classrooms will loathe the fact that Gov. Ducey's budget reduces administrative bureaucracy by $113 million (with no cuts to actual classroom spending).●  The corporate crony capitalists will wail about the $100 million slush fund Gov. Ducey wants to take away from the Arizona Commerce Authority.●  The educrats who waste taxpayer money and student tuition dollars at our community colleges and universities will scream about the $84 million in reductions to their budgets.They and their hundreds of lobbyists are going to fight hard to try to stop these cuts.  We need Arizona's taxpayers, producers and consumers to STAND UP NOW and support Gov. Ducey's budget reforms.Ducey's budget has more than $660 million in spending reductions for the fiscal year starting July 1 ($360 million is permanent and $304 million is temporary).  The permanent reductions will increase to nearly $450 million in the following fiscal year, when - for the first time since the go-go days of the real estate boom - the state budget will actually be structurally balanced.  WITH NO TAX INCREASES.For real.We're not kidding.We have always had a core of real fiscal conservatives at the Arizona Legislature who believed in balanced budgets and wanted to protect Arizona's taxpayers, producers and consumers.  But for the first time in recent memory, an Arizona governor is actually taking the leadership role of holding the line against the growth of Big Government.The executive budgets of Governors Napolitano and Brewer had absurdly high revenue predictions and dangerously high spending proposals that had to be cut down by the real leaders in the Legislature.  But it's a new day in Arizona!  (For you budget wonks out there, Gov. Ducey's $9.1 billion budget is well under the prudent budget limit of population-plus-inflation.)