People in Colorado voted TABOR into law and years after its passage, the taxpayers, as well as the schools, municipalities, roads, etc., have benefited.

All TABOR does is give the taxpayers the right to approve or not approve the spending of their dollars. In Colorado, it has proven to have benefited everyone in the state.

Maine, on the other hand, turned TABOR down, and look what has happened here.

Property taxes are out of control. The size of the government has increased. State and local laws have driven businesses out of the state.

Maine has become a welfare state.

In Rumford, there has been a 20+ percent tax increase this year alone. How much more will it be in the coming years.

Town officials spent thousands of dollars on the blue ox statue and then located it a mile away from Paul Bunyan. That’s as silly as putting Santa and his sleigh on Congress Street and the reindeer on Waldo Street. Now officials want to move the library up to the old high school location.

All they have to do now is convince every non-taxpaying citizen on welfare to vote against TABOR and everyone will soon be on welfare.

Maybe, when the paper mill closes, the town can turn it into a casino. Maybe the law can be changed so a food stamp card would work in a slot machine.

Warren Packard, Rumford