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- All Subjects: Central Arizona Project (U.S.)
- All Subjects: Finance, Public
- All Subjects: Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972 -- Correspondence
- Creators: Morrison Institute for Public Policy
- Creators: Colorado Verde Association.
- Creators: United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
Report on Feasibility Bridge Canyon Route Central Arizona Project, by E.A. Moritz, Bureau of Reclamation. Project Planning Report, No. 3-8b.4-1, February 1947.
C.C. Tillotson to Carl T. Hayden, 2/19/1945 re: Colorado-Verde Project, water allocations and Mexican water.
C.C. Tillotson to Carl T. Hayden, 4/27/1944 re: Colorado-Verde Project, water allocations and Mexican water.
"Arizona's Benefits From the Colorado River," by the Colorado Verde River Association, January 29, 1945.
Focuses on the evolving roles of government by looking at five state and local entities that impact nearly all Arizonans, but are not well-known. The report looks at how these agencies came to be, how their purposes have changed over time, and how the state’s expectations have changed.
Numerous tax cuts over the last 15 years have substantially reduced revenue to the Arizona state general fund and greatly narrowed the tax base.
Public finance—taxes and other revenues collected by government and the expenditure of those revenues—always has been somewhat controversial because of wide philosophical differences among residents regarding the role that government should play in providing public services and in collecting taxes and fees from its residents. Recently, public finance in Arizona has become a prominent public issue due to the need to resolve the deficits that afflict state government and most county and municipal governments in Arizona.
Arizona is emerging from one of the worst state budget crises in the nation. Entering 2003, its projected deficit, measured as a percentage of the general fund, was the fifth largest in the country.1 The state had slashed spending in 2002 in the face of a $900 million deficit, but still faced a $400 million shortfall for fiscal year 2003 and an estimated $1 billion deficit in fiscal 2004. Although improved revenues have reduced the anticipated gap, fundamental underlying problems remain concerning the ability of lawmakers to control the budget. Some observers consider this a revenue problem, others a spending problem. Our concern in this paper is whether state lawmakers have enough control over either revenue or spending.