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If the sales tax does not pass, lawmakers won’t look for a more equitable tax. Instead, they’ll take it as a mandate that voters want more cuts%u2014and they will proceed accordingly.

We already know what they will cut if the sales tax does not pass. They will cut another $428 million from education. They will cut $107 million from our universities. They will cut about $150 million from health-care funding. They will cut $100 million from the criminal-justice system. And the list goes on.

Those cuts will mean the state will lose another 13,000 jobs, according to economists at the UA Eller College of Management. On top of that, we’ll lose more than $442 million in federal matching funds that would bring new dollars into our economy.

Take the time, talk to your friends, our kids can not afford this, we can not afford this, our state’s long term prospects can not afford this

But we don’t have those choices. Instead, we have lawmakers who can’t wait to cut even more as soon as you give them an excuse. They’re the ones who are telling you to vote against the sales tax so they can get on with the slicing and dicing of everything that Arizona taxpayers have built over the last 100 years.

If the sales tax fails, the people who want to destroy our state win.

Save the state of Arizona. Vote yes on May 18.?