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Arizona’s GOP budget: Tax breaks for data centers and Roth IRAs, cuts for the people who need food

But Joseph Palomino, director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, told the Mirror that many of the policies in the Republican budget were unpopular. 

“It’s not going to meaningfully address affordability, it’s not going to grow the economy,” he said.

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