Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Is TABOR dead in Colorado?

My father-in-law called to tell me that he'd heard that polls in Colorado were not encouraging for the continued viability of their Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. Apparently, the politicians anxious to raise taxes have been running ads telling the voters that killing TABOR will mean higher spending on education et al, but without higher taxes.

Anyone know more?

I'm e-mailing Bill Hobbs to ask what he has heard.

UPDATE AND BUMP --

Bill wrote back:
It's close, but most of the "undecideds" are Republicans, which I think means in the end they'll vote mostly the right way and the "reforms" that would gut TABOR will narrowly fail. Remember, it only passed 52-48 the first time, not by some huge landslide. I think it will survive intact by the about the same margin.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

TABOR is unfortunately in trouble.
The 'Bigger Government group' has been able to misrepresent the 'only fives years' to help the schools and roads. The reality is massive new growth of spending and taxes. The state budget would grow even if the repeal of TABOR fails.

11:12 AM, October 26, 2005  

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