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Arizona Supreme Court rules that legislators can challenge Gov. Brewer’s illegal Medicaid tax

December 31, 2014 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

The Arizona Supreme Court said goodbye to outgoing governor Jan Brewer by upholding the right of legislators to challenge her illegal Medicaid expansion efforts. Last year, Brewer and her supporters engineered an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program pursuant to Obamacare—bizarrely, the very same Medicaid expansion she successfully cha ...

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Standing up for constitutional limits on taxation

July 08, 2014 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Several states have constitutional limits on tax-increases, and particularly super-majority requirements that force legislatures to get a 2/3 vote to raise taxes. California’s Proposition 13 is the most famous, but Arizona, Nevada, and other states have similar requirements. Sadly, state officials often try to find ways around these limits— ...