I have complete faith in the citizens, however it is the TABOR supporters I do not trust. You hit on the true reason we keep getting these referendums over and over again. It is not your anti-budget, but anti-Democratic. Despite having held the Governorship 12 of the last 18 you ultra conservative have failed to elect a republican legislature, and instead of concentrating your efforts on that you keep bring these same issues over and over. AND you refuse to accept any compromise. School consolidation, people's veto. Tax restructuring, people's veto. Nothing is good enough, and since the business people who support you, buying signatures to have referendum after referendum until the people tire and you hope to win by default. You people have done NOTHING to help this state, all you do is tear it down. It is truly pitiful how much you hate this state.
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TABOR's not a solution
Question 4 on the ballot in November is one of great concern to me as a taxpayer, parent, teacher, and Maine citizen.
In 2006, Maine voters rejected a similar proposal because a majority knew then as is still known now, that the legislation would hurt Maine families, schools and communities.
Voters in Colorado accepted TABOR and soon found their state in major crises with schools, health care and the economy; so much so, that voters there suspended TABOR in order to allow the state's economy to try to bounce back.
Maine, like many states, has had a difficult time in the current national economic crisis. Now is not the time to impose strict limits on revenue and spending; not the time to undermine local community control; and not the time to put vital public services in jeopardy.
I urge people to research Question 4 and to know what it could do to this great state.
It was not a solution in 2006, and I believe it should not be one for today.
Julie Taylor, Jay
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D wilson, So you want to
D wilson, So you want to overthrow our system of government and replace it with an artificial and wrong mathematical formula. You want to replace judgement and flexibility with a bad one-size-fits-all non-solution that does not take into consideration economic growth, increasing governmental costs, new laws, or changes in revenue to a almost non-existent problem. You want to exchange the safety and education of our communities for more vacation time for billionaires (those really backing this proposal).
I think not. Vote NO on 4
Jon Albrecht Dixfield
I think I'm going to have to
I think I'm going to have to disagree. In 2006 all the same arguments were made, and I agreed with them that Tabor was too harsh. We were promised controls would be put in place and the spending would be reinged in.
It wasn't.
Programs and spending can allways be justified, as they were enacted for a reason. But thats why you prioritize, and cut the spending. And if you want the state to grow, we need to cut taxes to attract business.
TABOR is a solution without
TABOR is a solution without a problem. The eunuchs who cannot elect like minded people to the legislature are attempting to scare people and use phony outrage to force governing bodies to do their will. It has not been sponsored by the people, but by foreign interests like the Maine Heritage Policy Center, which is just a bunch of out of state businesses who want to control the common Mainer. Will it work? Perhaps, these people are very skillful forecasting doom and gloom, however I hope Mainers will once again see these charlatans for what they truly are, cowards.
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I'm voting for TABOR. The
I'm voting for TABOR. The Dem controlled Blaine House and Legislature have had chance after chance, through good times as well as bad, to signficantly reduce spending (either responsibly or not) and have simply refused to do it. Putting a limit on the increase in spending (which is NOT a cut, no matter how some try to portray it), while allowing additional spending IF permitted by voters, seems reasonable to me. If higher spending is critical, government can make its case and let us decide. I have faith in the citizens that they will approve what is necessary. Why do the anti-TABOR individuals have such little faith in citizens, but such great faith in State and local governments that continually fail to operate more responsibly?