Payday Pundit

Stan Barnes of Yes of Proposition 200 has a guest piece today in the Arizona Daily Star:

Every day it seems another self- appointed know-it-all with an ax to grind is in the news, blaming payday lending for all of society’s ills and demanding the industry be run out of town before every one of us is beguiled into bankruptcy.

In my 20 years of active civic involvement in Arizona, I have never seen an issue so grossly manipulated by special interests either willfully ignorant of the facts or simply obsessed with their political agenda.