Permanent Arizona Sales Tax Would Hurt Small Businesses Worst

As ATR predicted three years ago when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer first proposed her “temporary” billion dollar per year sales tax hike, there would be an effort to extend it, or make it permanent before the sunset date. Fast forward to today and we have Proposition 204, AKA the “Quality Education and Jobs Act,” on the November 6^th Arizona ballot. Prop. 204 would make Gov. Brewer’s sales tax hike permanent. What advocates for Prop. 204 fail to realize is that maintaining such a high sales tax rate serves only to hurt businesses and diminish jobs for Arizona residents.