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Feb. 20, 2011
Resnik - "Is it fair that businesses should get these tax breaks while universities suffer and those patients suffer?"
Brewer - "Absolutely. Absolutely."
Earlier on Sunday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer appeared on 12 News' (KPNX) Sunday Square Off program, hosted by Brahm Resnik, to defend the hundreds of million dollars worth of corporate tax cuts she signed into law a few days ago.
Her appearance was an exercise in regurgitation -
She regurgitated the long-refuted theories of trickle-down economics (which should be referred to as "tinkle down" economics).
I regurgitated the undigested remnants of breakfast while listening to her spout (that's just a metaphor - I hadn't eaten breakfast yet :) ).
My favorite quote is above, but there were other "profound" tidbits from the program (video clip embedded below) -
3:32
Brewer - ...I know that the free enterprise is what really stokes the fuel of the furnace, and the furnace is business in Arizona..
Resnik - So it *is* something of a gamble?
Brewer - Life is a gamble.
Or how about -
4:00 (talking about the impact of the corporate tax breaks on Arizona's unemployment crisis)
Resnik - People are asking "How soon will half a billion dollars in tax breaks create a job for me?"
Brewer - Because we know businesses, particularly high paying wage businesses, are the people who create those jobs and if you stymie them and you make it impossible for them to maintain here by charging them above their competitive states that we're competing with, they won't come here, they won't stay here, they will go someplace else and if we become competitive, they will bring new jobs, we will keep the jobs that we have, and that means that it's, [not] to use the phrase "the trickle down, the bottom line is that more people will have jobs, and therefore those people with the jobs are going to go out and it's going to trickle down to the lawnmower guy, to the dry cleaner, it's just the facts.
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