Our schools and roads need funding, and our workforce needs support for quality childcare.
Arizona State Legislature: It's time for you to
Invest in kids, safety, and workers, not billionaires!
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SB1085 - If you own a private jet, you would pay no sales tax and no taxes on repairing it. Typical Arizonans pay sales tax when they buy a car to get to work, but zillionaires would not pay sales tax for their private jet to an island vacation. We say, "STOP bills for billionaires!" -
SB1126 - If you own a private race horse, you would get a subsidy. We say "Neigh! and Nay!!" "STOP bills for billionaires! " -
HB2704 - $20 mil per year, for 30 years paid by John Q. Taxpayer to the billionaire owners of the Diamondbacks. We love our team, but the billionaire owners can afford to repair the stadium they use to make private profits. The billionaire owners took in over $328 million just in baseball revenue in 2024. On top of that, they get even more from concerts and sports betting. The public already subsidizes them; the team pays no rent and no property tax to use the stadium. Click for the details of this billionaire baseball boondoggle. STOP bills for -- literally a billionaire owner! CLICK to Take a 1-Question Survey about it.
Inspiring speeches from our Rally, April 12, 2025 at the Capitol.
The Arizona State Legislature has far too many bills for billionaires. People who own a private jet or a private race horse do NOT need a subsidy, but that is the theme of far too many bills. They transfer tax dollars from everyday working people to luxuries for billionaires.
STOP! Stop the bills for Billionaires! Specific bills. We are not complaining in a general way. We have compiled specific bills that are simply subsidies to *zillionaires or to actual billionaires.
See the list of bills - click here.
These bills are not economic development.
With these billionaire bills, the return to the public is less than the public pays. When the "Get" is less than the "Give" then it's a rotten deal.
For example, the sponsors of the bill for private jets to get a tax cut said that repairing airplanes is a good business in our Arizona economy. True! It's so good, that we have more jobs than we have people to fill them. Therefore, we do NOT need an incentive to create more jobs in a profitable private industry.
YOU deserve to move up to your best life as a reward for your hard work.
But policies like these billionaire bailouts are stopping you. You deserve fair, low taxes to pay for the public roads, safety, health, and education that we all need.
You want to get rich. But if the billionaire-zillionaire class keeps making you pay for everything, then their "bills for billionaires" are the problem.
It's time for the billionaires to pay what they owe.
Billionaires and Zillionaires should
pay what they owe.
In Arizona, the richest few pay HALF of what a middle class worker pays for state and local taxes. Middle class Arizonans are paying for our roads, safety, and education, while the billionaires are not paying what they owe. Zillionaires have big incomes from public roads and public safety, so they should pay what they owe for using them. Zillionaires rely on public education for their workforce. Their customers would not have disposable income to buy zillionaires' products without public education. YES! Public education helps zillionaires to have more customers. Public health keeps those workers and customers healthy so that they can produce and buy the goods and services that create the enormous wealth that zillionaires get.
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Zillionaires should pay what they owe. AZ DOR should collect it.
Arizona should hire enough tax auditors and collectors to simply ask, "Please pay the amount you owe." Nobody likes a cheater. Some analyses estimate that for each collector or auditor we hire at DOR, we might get 6 times or more revenue in ROI, return on the cost. Sadly, Republican legislators refuse to invest in this simple, honest approach.
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Zillionaires should pay what they owe. Stop the loopholes and subsidies.
Our current tax system is regressive. That means there are way too many carve-outs and loopholes for the richest few, leaving everybody else to pay. We've got to stop the bills for billionaires to stop the loopholes and carve-outs that keep making everybody else pay, while the billionaires get the benefits.
Low-Tax advocates say, "I don't care if it's regressive; I just want lower spending."
But they also say, "Stop the freeloaders." Zillionaires who do not pay what they owe are free-loading off of the middle class who pays for the roads and public systems that keep our economy going, and provide profits to the zillionaires.
If we cut all state spending down to the point of the only thing we cover are roads, the middle class should not be the ONLY ones paying taxes for those roads. But that is roughly how our system works for Arizona state and local taxes now.
* Here, we use the term, "zillionaire" to mean a person whose annual income is very, very high, but not specifically defined.
It's relative. A "zillionaire" who owns a private jet, does not need a public subsidy to maintain it. A "zillionaire" who owns so much gold he doesn't know what to do with it does not need taxpayers to build him a free gold depository.
We say, "Stop Bills For Billionaires" because you understand what we mean. Naysayers want to focus on the terms, billionaire or zillionaire, instead of the policies. They probably don't have a good argument in policy, so they focus on terminology instead. We stand on the specific facts of each bill, and we say, "NO more bailouts for anybody who is already running a highly profitable business; No more bailouts for billionaires or zillionaires."