Len Munsil's Blog

Our national economy took a huge hit on Sept. 11, 2001. When Janet Napolitano took office early in 2003, the state of Arizona, like most other states, was dealing with a post-9/11 economic downturn that created a budget deficit.

Gov. Napolitano appointed a commission that proposed tax and fee increases to cover the shortfall. The Republican legislature rejected those solutions, and the state of Arizona was bailed out by federal tax cuts pushed through by President Bush and a Republican Congress.

Americans love choice.
 
Yakov Smirnov, the comedian who fled the Cold War-era Soviet Union to a new life in the United States, made a career out of examining the myriad choices of consumer products available in America, exclaiming: “What a country!”