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New Bells & Whistles But the Same Engine: Pennsylvania’s Spending Limit Proposals are Powered by the Same Formula as Colorado’s Failed TABOR
December 6, 2005
Four new proposals in Pennsylvania — Senate Bills 4 and 884 and House Bills 2067 and 2082 — would impose tight limits on state expenditures that would shrink available public services such as education and health care in the same way that Colorado’s TABOR has led to a deterioration in that state. Colorado has the strictest … -
False Promise of Prosperity: For Kansas Economic Growth, TABOR May Do More Harm than Good
November 3, 2005
A constitutional TABOR amendment in Kansas has been promoted as a way to improve the state’s economy. It is far more likely, however, that a TABOR would impede the strengthening of the state’s economy. TABOR would restrict the legislature’s ability to set fiscal policy and would take away some of the most effective tools … -
A State of Decline: What a TABOR Would Mean for Kansas
September 12, 2005
.style1 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; } .style2 { background-color: #003768; } .style3 { color: #FFFFFF; } If a constitutional amendment to limit expenditures — similar to Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) — had been in place over the last decade in Kansas, state services would have … -
Fiction and Fact: A Response to the Tax Foundation’s Distortion of Colorado’s TABOR
May 2, 2005
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A State Of Decline: What a Tabor Would Mean For Ohio
April 19, 2005
If a constitutional amendment to limit expenditures — similar to Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) — had been in place over the last decade in Ohio, state and local services would have deteriorated substantially. Assuming a TABOR limit, such as the one most recently proposed by Secretary of State … -
Property Taxes in Perspective
Revised March 17, 2005
Some observers suggest that a property tax “crisis” is brewing because property tax collections nationwide as a share of income have risen somewhat over the last few years, and imply that a new round of property tax revolts might be the appropriate response. The data show, however, that there is no crisis. At … -
The Flawed “Population Plus Inflation” Formula: Why TABOR’s Growth Formula Doesn’t Work
January 13, 2005
Limiting the growth of state revenue collections and state expenditures to a population-growth-plus-inflation formula is a central provision of a new generation of “tax and expenditure limits” — or TELs — now being promoted by national anti-government groups. Under such proposals, state constitutions would …
