Maricopa County needs to cut its size. Cut county government by 30% [or] more. Here is an example:

In 1982 New Zealand was the lowest in Per capita income of all the developed nations surveyed by the World Bank.[1] In 1984, successive governments began engaged in major macroeconomic restructuring, transforming New Zealand from a highly protectionist and regulated economy to a liberalized free-trade economy. Eventually the economy recovered and New Zealand’s unemployment rate reached a record low of 3.4% in the December 2007 quarter, ranking fifth from twenty-seven OECD nations with comparable data.[2] In 2009, New Zealand’s economy ranked as the fifth freest in the world according the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom.[3]

[1] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v46/ai_15779198/

[2] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10502512

[3] http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article/4339