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Proponents of the GOP-backed Senate resolution, including Governor-elect Doug Ducey and Attorney General Elect Mark Brnovich, claimed that “many federal programs cost Arizona more than the state receives from the federal government. Prop 122 creates a way for the state to evaluate these programs and determine what makes sense for Arizona’s taxpayers. It won’t stop Washington from passing new laws, rules and regulations, but it can at least force them to pay their own bills.”

My heart would bleed for them, a little, if Arizona wasn’t getting $1.62 in federal spending for every dollar of federal taxes paid. I am confident that this resolution is a high minded assertion of states’ rights rather than, say, a prelude to land and resource grabs

Arizona: The Freeloader State