Each January, like clockwork, the local YMCA in Phoenix has an influx of new members, all having made a new year’s resolution to lose weight and get in shape. Each April, like clockwork, the machines become available once again, the vast majority of the new members letting life get in the way again until next […]

There is a group named the Tax Foundation that is non-partisan by most accounts. It says that six years ago twenty percent of Americans received three quarters of their income from a collection of government programs. Another one in five were receiving forty percent of their income from the government. Today, 60% of American households […]

Now that 300,000 folks on AHCCCS, and all the children enrolled in the SCHIP program in Arizona, have been saved from the chopping block thanks to the new federal health care plan, Arizona faces an additional $11.6 billion dollars in debt over the next decade. Immediately though is the question of what to do with […]