Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Monday went from bad to worse at the state capitol. First the bad. The Arizona Capitol Times blog reported Five-party talks in peril:

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema spoke to our reporter at the conclusion of today’s five-party talks. “I’m not sure there’s going to be any more of those meetings,” she said. She identified the repeal of the equalization tax as the biggest obstacle. She said Republicans “won’t budge” on reinstating the tax, so the Dems asked the GOP to come up with other sources of $250 million to restore cuts to education and social programs. They refused, she said. The Dems agreed to the sales tax referral, all the BRB provisions and cuts deeper than what they wanted and asked only for K-12 funding, no prop tax repeal and a rebate to help the poor absorb the tax increase.

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