Despite individual positions on the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, choices remain highly personal and reflect countless years of deep-seated opinions on Maine’s political and financial performance. For the most part, discussions between those sharing opposing views reflect sensible elements of concern.

Yet, while offering absolutely nothing constructive as an alternative solution, Citizens Unified for Maine’s Future ignores these sensible concerns. Rather, it belittles the opposition in commercials that portray those favoring TABOR as idiotic imbeciles annoying angry homeowners or stressed teachers blowing up classrooms. There are no meaningful messages in their campaigns other than playing the fatalistic education card in a desperate hope that Edith Sitwell’s observation proves valid, “The public will believe anything so long as it is not founded on the truth.”

Realistically, unless a more favorable solution presents itself to regulate Maine’s political regime, TABOR emerges as the lesser of two evils in a state that generates some of the nation’s lowest per-capita income, romances fiscal irresponsibility and endures as the poster child of taxation without representation.

One has to wonder what the CUMF’s vested interest might be in status quo, runaway spending and open-ended taxation schemes.

Roger R. Turcotte, Lewiston