It’s Baaaaack…..TABOR 2: Different Name, Same Old Dribble

The long awaited Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is back, this time disguised as the Taxpayer’s Protection Amendment. TABOR, you may remember, is the vehicle to make state and local units of government adhere to strict spending limits, without reasonable latitude for governmental services like police and fire protection, trash collection and the like. In other words, it would make us a lot more like North Mississippi than Wisconsin. Read the authors release.

Colorado has this and hates it. Now, the legislative Republicans want to put it into the State Constitution somewhere between the amendment to give people the right to hunt and fish and the proposed marriage law definition.

I won’t go into detail. You’ll hear plenty more about it. Suffice it to say if this turkey does try to fly, it is not a shoo-in to pass as even the handful of moderate Republicans who are left may not be able to stomach this.

My odds on it: 35 percent chance of passage in its current form.


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There will be no blog entries until Tuesday, February 14th. I’m going on a little R&R. Enjoy the other blogs posted on Leftyblogs.