Posted by
John Dendahl on Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:35:27 PM
Writing in The Denver Post recently, the reliably left-wing Mike Littwin lamented, "In the land of TABOR, where the legislators basically work in handcuffs, an economic downturn always turns into crisis."
On the website Homepage of The Rocky Mountain Foundation, we have a little discussion of TABOR, a fine brake on growth of government spending that is the envy of most other states. And we discuss sabotage of TABOR by a later voter initiative pushed by the left, Amendment 23.
The handcuffs on legislators lamented by Littwin is spending growth for K-12 government schools mandated by Amendment 23.
Amendment 23 is to TABOR what salmonella is to peanuts.