How much more can we take?

TABOR never has worked and is even worse when state government has cut spending to the bone in these recessionary times.
Virtually everything in Warren's letter is false. State spending since the failure of TABOR has gone down or been consistent with TABOR I as promised. Spending is not out of control. Rumford's 20% increase is regettable, but its not due to spending. Its due to the revaluation of the Mill. Rumford has for more the 100 years gotten a free ride because of the taxes paid to the town while paying Mexico very little. Maine didn't become a welfare state in the last 3 years.
The TABOR formula is wrong. Using CPI instead of a basket of goods and services government actually purchases results in artificially low growth in spending. TABOR will strangle public services. California passed Prop13 many years ago starting a huge migration to Colorado of better educated people. Now TABOR has passed in Colorado devastating education as Prop 13 did in California. Even now that population growth has cushioned the bad effects of TABOR there, but they still had to suspend it for the last 5 years. Maine doesn't have a cushion. We don't have double digit population growth. We don't have thousands moving in and bringing their businesses with them.
Old Bill - check your Jefferson quotes looks to be a fraud.
Vote NO on 4
Jon Albrecht Dixfield

Ron, you almost got the answer right. TABOR will not, of course, work. What will work is shrinking the size of our state government, and by NOT ELECTING THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS TO THE LEGISLATURE! The tax-and-spend liberals we, as a state, keep sending to Augusta, are the reason our taxes are so high. Get rid of them and elect someone who has some common sense, and the problem will cure itself. TABOR isn't needed.
"The democracy will cease to exist when the government takes from those who would work and gives to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson.

Sorry Phycus, but I disagree. Even though I'm sick to death of every referendum commercial on TV, even those I agree with, I always laugh at the one where some lady sighs "how many times do we have to vote no to this?", or something to that affect. Um, until the Gov and Leg reduce spending. This is followed up by some guy with the same old tired refrain "it will eliminate local control". Huh? The voters have to ok any spending above formula-instituted limits...where's the loss of local control there? Government can make its case for additional spending if it truly needs it. I have faith that the voters will ok additional spending if they can be assured that existing budgets have been sufficiently prioritized and additional tax money is needed. And Lil, the voters of Colorado suspended it...exactly as it should be. They were willing to try an approach and decided for themselves to suspend it for a period of time...but they didn't eliminate it. Exactly as it should be.

TABOR worked so well in Colorado they suspended it.
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