The drive of particular pursuits to lift taxes is relentless, and democratic guardrails may be an necessary taxpayer protection. That’s the logic behind an Arizona effort to elevate the brink for elevating taxes by poll measure. Passing it could assist hold the state off the well-trod highway to fiscal serfdom.
The proposal will seem as a poll measure in November, giving voters an opportunity to set the next bar for lifting tax charges. If handed it could amend the state structure to require a 60% majority to lift taxes by any future referendum. Present regulation requires a two-thirds majority to lift taxes by laws however solely a easy majority to take action by plebiscite.