Turn Out the Lights

In only four years, the current Board of Supervisors has spent seven years’ worth of budget.

Seven year’s worth of budget, wasted in four years.

Not only has “Deficit Rex” Scott voted for each of these horrible budgets, he’s actually created much of the spending himself!

Here’s a staggering fact: Tote up all the tax revenue that Maricopa County takes—that county’s total budget, essentially—divide that by the total population of the county, and you get the per-capita burden. Divide that per-capita burden by the median income of the county, and you get the average Maricopa County resident’s burden. Run that same calculation against Pima County, where we have less population and lower average income.

It costs the average Pima County resident 2.4 times what it costs those in Maricopa!

2.4 times!!

And “Deficit Rex” has driven that obscene increase.

He’s spent $3.3 billion above what the County should have spent. He’s blown that money. $1.4 billion of that was deficit spending—debt that we now owe back.

Here’s the reality:

You could shut down Pima County for a year. Lock the doors, turn out the lights, shut it down.
And you still wouldn't pay off Rex Scott's debt and interest.

Folks, it’s bad. And my promise to you is to do everything I can think of to do, to put forth every creative solution I can conceive, to restore sanity to Pima County’s finances and spare our county from bankruptcy.

Rex Scott will only spend more. And he’s committed to that.

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