Spent all the Peoples money. .... Gov. Jan ‘Fiscally Responsible’ Brewer leaves office this month, and she’s handing her successor, Doug Ducey, a budget deficit of half a billion dollars. The projected deficit for the next fiscal year is $1 billion. That didn’t stop her, however, from ending 2014 by handing out fat bonuses to already well-paid staffers. An investigation by the Arizona Republic revealed that the biggest bonuses were for $10,000 each and went to 10 separate people, eight of whom are already making $125,000 a year. Smaller bonuses, still in the thousands, were given to 12 others. The money was described as retention bonuses, which at least makes some sense. They were meant to keep staffers with Brewer for the final year of her term as governor. After all, what else could motivate them to stick with the woman? The Brewer administration has no problem flinging around taxpayer money as long as it doesn’t benefit taxpayers. In December, the Republic also revealed that state officials gave pay raises, some topping 40 percent, to 169 employees without the Department of Administration’s approval, which is required by law. The mounting deficit has everything to do with irresponsibility. Brewer and the Republican-dominated legislature have cut taxes repeatedly over the years, and many of these cuts have been geared at corporate taxes in particular. As a result, they’ve cut certain services to the bone — frivolous expenditures, like education for example. reverbpress/politics/gov-jan-brewer-leaves-arizona-broke-still-gives-big-bonuses-to-staff/
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:24:11 +0000
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