“Deficit Rex” Scott

He's burned more than $1.4 billion we don't have in deficit spending alone in only four years, doubled the budget, and jacked up your taxes.
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https://www.pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
Deficit is budgeted expenditures minus budgeted revenues.
Scott's budgets run from 2021/2022 through 2024/2025.

He's burned more than $1.4 billion we don't have
in deficit spending alone in only four years,
doubled the budget, and jacked up your taxes.
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https://www.pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
Deficit is budgeted expenditures minus budgeted revenues.
Scott's budgets run from 2021/2022 through 2024/2025.

Scroll down for more, and for the alternative.

Irresponsible, Unreasonable Spending

Rex Scott passed atrocious spending that blew through

7 years of tax revenue

in only four years.

https://www.pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
The sum of all four of Scott's budgets' expenditures is about 7× the county's tax revenue when he started.

Rex's Spending Spree

“Deficit Rex” doubled the county budget, and has barely reduced it since. His deficit is only a portion of the

$3.3 billion extra

he's spent in just four years.

https://pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
2020/2021 revenue was $1.1bn; Scott's first budget in 2021/2022 spent over $2.1bn.
His total expenditures are $3.3bn higher than revenue had he not raised taxes.

“Deficit Rex” doubled the county budget,
and has barely reduced it since.
His deficit is only a portion of the

$3.3 billion extra

he's spent in just four years.

https://pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
2020/2021 revenue was $1.1bn; Scott's first budget in 2021/2022 spent over $2.1bn.
His total expenditures are $3.3bn higher than revenue had he not raised taxes.

Rex Scott's Crushing Debt Budgets

Chart showing the explosive growth of Rex Scott's budgets

Source: Pima.gov

RTA averages $89M/yr spending over 18 years; Rex Scott averages $825M/yr in extra spending over four years

Who Spent it Faster?

It's taken the voter-approved Regional Transport Authority
eighteen years to spend $1.6 billion.

Rex Scott bloated the budget by $1 billion in his first year
and wasted an extra $3.3 billion in just four years.

https://pima.gov/1172/County-Budget, https://rtamobility.com

Who Spent it Faster?

It's taken the voter-approved Regional Transport Authority eighteen years to spend $1.6 billion.

Rex Scott bloated the budget by $1 billion in his first year and wasted an extra $3.3 billion in just four years.

https://pima.gov/1172/County-Budget, https://rtamobility.com

Who Spent it Faster?

Rex Scott could destroy our local economy.

"Deficit Rex" could impose a

10%

county sales tax on you for

a year

and not pay off his deficit.
And crush local businesses and
decimate our economy in the process.

https://pima.gov/1172/County-Budget
The 2023/2024 budget shows Pima County's total retail sales excluding food to be $12.2bn/year.
10% of that is $1.2bn, which is less than Scott's deficit spending, and a mere one-third his total excess spending.