Unwilling to live within its means for years, Pima County filed suit on Monday with the Arizona Supreme Court asking that the state continue to pick up the tab for its recklessness.
Pima is unhappy that the 35-year-old constitutional amendment that caps county property taxes at 1 percent.
Previously, the state backfilled money when the cap was ignored. With the state facing financial issues, it is now only able to pay up to $1 million per county in additional state aid.
According to the Rose Law Group Reporter, the County’s hired gun, attorney Joe Kanefield, said the people who will be hit are not even in the taxing districts that will benefit. “It’s an unfair taking of revenue by one taxpayer to subsidize a neighbor,” he said. And that, Kanefield argues, is unconstitutional.
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