By Howard Fischer | Daily Star
PHOENIX — The way Rep. Rachel Jones sees it, once you have paid off your house you should not have to worry about property taxes.
But the first-term Republican lawmaker from Tucson acknowledged there are a bunch of practical questions with her proposed legislation, including who would — or should — get a tax break. Her plan probably needs some major amendments to get any traction, she said.
But Jones said she decided to swing for the fences and start out asking for everything, figuring that gives her lots of negotiating room.
“You go big,’’ she told Capitol Media Services.
Some of it, Jones said, is philosophical.
“It’s awful that you’re charged taxes on something you own,’’ she said. Jones said that would be like buying a couch, paying the sales taxes and then having to pay some sort of fee for possessing it.
