Tabor & the Constitution

Summary


Attorney General Steven Rowe has raised constitutional concerns about the citizen's initiative Taxpayer Bill of Rights, known as TABOR. These questions should be a central part of the debate over the spending restrictions.

TABOR may not go forward in November if a recent court decision that ruled some of its signatures arrived too late to be counted by the secretary of state stands. An appeal is pending and the state constitution certainly seems to favor the TABOR supporters (a legislative task force, coincidentally, recently tried to solve the conflicting laws that helped give rise to this problem). But whether the current ruling stands or TABOR supporters prevail, the issue is popular and the supporters well organized - it will be before voters, if not this year then next.

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Tabor & the Constitution

Rep. Sean Faircloth of Bangor raised the question of TABOR's constitutionality last winter before his caucus and to leader...

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