General Discussion

The first and primary was having tax revenues decline by more than 6% instead of increase by nearly 2%. News sources from the Arizona Mirror to AP emphasized that as reason #1. The governor, however, a foe of the program, really just focused on the ed. savings accounts. Bringing us to cause #2 ...

#2 was having a lot more parents use the "education savings accounts" than predicted.

That's a problem--when too many people make use of a government program.

The governor did have a valid point--the (R) legislature didn't make any attempts at imposing a reasonable cap on the program. That probably doesn't just constitute insufficiently controlled spending per person, but an enticement that motivated the enrollment in excess of expectations.