After reading a small Taxpayer Bill of Rights brochure that had been left in my door recently, I could see that it was no different than any other article that I’ve read that spoke against TABOR.

The authors of the anti-TABOR letters were quick to point out all of the things that are wrong with TABOR, but not one offered an alternative to cutting spending. They all spewed the same old rhetoric, but never offered constructive solutions.

We’ve been hearing for years how we need to cut spending, but it never happens. The free spenders have laughed at us for years, and have raised our taxes, over and over again.

Enough is enough. Now there is a tool to limit free spending; it’s called TABOR. Those free spenders have had their way at our expense far too long and now it’s time for us to reclaim our sensibility.

If people here think Colorado has it bad since TABOR went into effect, read what residents’ property taxes are for comparable real estate values; read what their sales and personal income tax rates are compared to Maine; and read about the programs they have to help their elderly pay their property taxes, then decide.

People will soon realize that Maine needs some of the “bad things” that are happening in Colorado. Those speaking against TABOR are trying to scare people, and it’s not working.

I will vote for TABOR in November, and I hope others will, too.

Roland H. Rancourt Jr., Auburn