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CBPP Statement: November 4, 2009 For Immediate Release Statement: Iris Lav, Senior Advisor, on Defeat of âTABORâ Initiatives In Maine and Washington Yesterday s votes in Maine and Washington show clearly that TABOR s crippling and arbitrary spending limits remain unpopular around the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 30 days ago
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
An excellent point from Kristina Wilfore who observes
that if you want a decent test of the...
“tea party” movement you could do worse than to look at TABOR proposals that would put arbitrary caps on state government spending and force ...
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Voters Reject Anti-Government TABOR Proposals in Maine ...
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TABOR's troubles
Political Animal —
... necessary to protect priorities, create jobs, and get their economies going. TABOR would have slowed economic recovery and left Washington and Maine in a permanent recession. TABOR would have undermined the tradition of local control. TABOR would have threatened education and health care. But people voted their values and said no -- not in our state. TABOR was a bad idea before, and is even a worse idea now in the middle of a recession. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Iris Lav added , "As states emerge from the current economic and budget crisis, they will need the ...
TABOR initiatives defeated in Maine and Washington
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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
A h/t to Flounder for a comment he posted earlier, "I think one of the biggest takeaways of the elections last night are that the right-wings TABOR Amendments failed in Maine and Washington."
During the Special Session this past summer, the Accidental Governor and Senate ...
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