“The biggest changes came at the hand of Sen. Jack Harper, a Surprise Republican who tied his support of a sales-tax referral to the approval of a series of four budget amendments…Harper said he could only support a sales-tax increase sought by GOP Gov. Jan Brewer if legislators take the steps to further reduce the size and scope of state government.”

I traded my vote to put the sales tax increase on the ballot. Wanna know what I got? In exchange for me being sorta kinda guaranteed a cut of 1,700 state jobs (most of which were vacant, already) and a cut of $1 MILLION from the Auto Theft Authority, I agreed to put a $1 BILLION sales tax increase on the ballot. What a steal!