ColoradoPols:
Yesterday, two versions of Colorado's controversial Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) went before the voters in Washington state and Maine.
Where, in both states, TABOR was roundly defeated by bigger-than-expected margins, educated by Colorado's painful experience--as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:
Joel Judd: Fair Taxes/Fair Share
We cannot give away tax dollars for tax credits for large corporations without proof that they work.
Kristina Wilfore: Tea Baggers Get Kicked Where It Hurts
Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else.
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Anti-tax radicals never stop to consider that tax revenue is not piled up and burned; it is used to provide essential services, and you get what you pay for.
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First Posted: 11- 4-09 03:16 PM | Updated: 11- 4-09 03:28 PM