For subscribers: Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake shared their plans for economic growth and tax policy in a forum Wednesday night, the first event featuring both candidates since each won their party's nomination.
Arizona's candidates for governor Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake shared their plans for economic growth and tax policy in a forum Wednesday night, the first event featuring both candidates since each won their party's nomination.center stage in the hour-long event hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The powerful business advocacy organization is an ally of outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey.
Even as she blasted the media, a frequent foil of hers on the campaign trail, she said her experience covering a variety of stories prepared her to lead. Lake said she would work to lower taxes every year, which would also take cooperation of the Arizona Legislature, offering a plan with annual targeted tax cuts: to sales tax in her first year if she is elected governor, property tax in her second year, followed by income tax and then other fees.
Ducey set a similar goal on the campaign trail in 2014, saying he'd get income tax rates"as close to zero as possible," and last year fought to secure support for a phased-in flat income tax that amounts to an about $2 billion cut. Both candidates fielded questions about how they would work with local governments, an issue that came to a head in 2020 and 2021 as Ducey's plan to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic was often at odds with local Democratic leaders.
Lake said "the government was so out of control during COVID, I hate to even think about it. It makes my blood boil." She said she would never shut down businesses, churches or schools and not mandate masks or vaccinations."Here's the thing," Hobbs said. "My door's always gonna be open. And we are all in this together in making Arizona the best place to live, work and raise a family, whether it's the business community, our cities and towns.
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