December 14, 2008
Arizona Republic Columnist Cites State-Local Tax Burden Study in Retort Against New York Times
"When NY Times Disses Arizona, It's Time to Dis Back"
By Doug MacEachern
That is how New York came to have the fourth highest state and local tax burden in the country, according to the Tax Foundation's annual report for fiscal 2008. It is also how New York effectively wrecked the state market for individual and small-group health insurance in 1993 when it instituted a series of mandates that more than tripled premiums.
Granted, the dysfunction of New York government has often been a bipartisan affair. But it isn't now, and, believe it or not, the haplessness there has gotten worse as a result of Democrats taking over entirely.
