Our opponents – all with their hands in our pockets – insist that Coloradans are unhappy with TABOR and just want to be rid of it. They seek to create the impression that there’s a groundswell of opposition to it. After all, didn’t Coloradans “suspend TABOR for five years”? And TABOR is “devastating” the schools.
Actually, TABOR is still Colorado law – including its tax and spending limitations.
Of more interest to the discussion is what happened in Colorado during the 2008 election. It seems that Colorado’s education lobby put Amendment 59 on the ballot that would have removed education funding from TABOR spending limits altogether. And guess what happened?
Colorado voters rejected it 55% to 45%. But, hey, those people in Colorado – they really hate TABOR.
For more information, please visit the Maine TABOR website.
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Actually, you are partially right… Denver metro residents hate TABOR because we are watching its devastating effects on our school systems every day… Unfortunately there is too much population outside of the metro area that is not as definite about TABOR’s impact and therefore makes it impossible to overturn.
I notice that TABOR opponents – wherever they might be – all repeat in robotic unison that schools are “devastated”. What does that mean, precisely? And if schools need additional funding, why don’t the pols simply put it out to a referendum as TABOR provides. My daughter attends DU and my wife and I are in and out of metro Denver quite a lot and I keep looking for all the devastation. Yet, what I do see is a very prosperous place – particularly when compared to Maine.
Please explain “devastated”.