Advocates of economic growth ran into some squishy. low-info teabaggery in Scottsdale last week. 

Sunday's AZ Republic article, TASK FORCE CONSIDERS CURB ON CITY SPENDING, describes a proposed amendment to the Scottsdale city charter which would require voters to ratify, a priori, proposed tax breaks or subsidies to private entities.  

Seems logical -- until when one realizes that such projects often have a drop-dead time period that's too short for a public referendum. 

Ah, but that's what Libertarians and Teabaggers -- the I'VE GOT MINE AND I'M PULLING UP THE LADDER crowd -- are counting on. Never mind that there have been fewer than 20 of these projects in the past 20 years!

Frustration unto distrust of government is one thing but this is a clear case of the lunatics taking over the asylum and trying to reinvent the wheels of economic progress without a blueprint.  

One has to ask -- why have an Economic Development Department at all?  And, how many of these know-nothings have ever attended a Public Hearing on subsidized economic proposals?        


http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/01/24/20100124nesubsidy0124-CP.html