Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature moved with impressive speed last week to come up with an alternative way to keep providing assistance to disabled students and foster children after the state Supreme Court ruled that two private-school voucher programs violated the state constitution.
In less than two weeks, lawmakers and Brewer acted to expand an existing tax credit program for corporations to donate to private scholarship tuition organizations, essentially replacing the $5 million in funding lost when the voucher programs were struck down.
Corporate tuition tax credits also are being attacked in court, but that program has stronger legal precedent to support it.
With that in mind, the Legislature simply will have no excuses if it somehow fails to adopt a new budget that resolves the projected $3.3 billion deficit in a timely fashion that allows for fair review by the public. It’s clear that lawmakers can get things done correctly when they put their hearts into the task.
There are 30 days left before the start of the new fiscal year. Get the budget done. Now.
30 days, huh? Glad someone else noticed.
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