If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.

With just days left in the political campaign, the Maine Chamber of Commerce has been studying the snowball called the Taxpayer Bill of Rights that is rolling downhill, gathering momentum and size, and decided it wants to make another snowball.

In doing so, members cast their lot with the teachers’ unions, municipal lobbyists and all others who have been feeding at the tax trough and cannot bear the thought that there might be a spigot involved that has a shutoff valve.

Casting aside any thought they might accept the will of the voters if it opposes to them, they have promised to seek “substantial changes” in TABOR if it passes. One more good reason to elect legislators who support TABOR, and a governor who will veto any attempt to subvert it.

The scare tactics of the anti-TABOR crowd must not be working. People who have been promised tax relief and seen it end up in the ash heap have had enough. I served in municipal government for eight years as a councilman and a mayor of Auburn, and I assure you there are no worthwhile reasons to deny Maine taxpayers this needed relief.

I support a “yes” vote on Question 1.

John R. Linnell, New Gloucester