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  TABOR: Spending Lid Proposal
 

TABOR: A Bad Idea for Missouri

Current Coalition Partners

View TABOR video (or click here for the Quicktime version)

A Whirlwind of Destruction article published in Missouri Municipal Review magazine, September 2006

Ballot Initiative Dead for 2006; Coalition Warns that Spending Lid will Resurface

Race to the Bottom: Proposed "TABOR" Amendment Would Devastate Missouri Economic Development & Basic Services, April 10, 2006

TABOR News Release from Secretary of State's Office

Quacks Like a Duck: Missouri's HJR 48 Is Colorado's TABOR

 

Watch this video (or click here for the Quicktime version) to see what Missouri can learn from Colorado's negative experience with TABOR.  In November, 2005, Colorado voters passed a referendum to suspend TABOR.

Voters Beware: TABOR Is Not What Missouri Needs, November 2005

TABOR: A Proven Failure in Colorado; Implications for Missouri, March, 2006 (When you click on this link, be sure to click on the "Read Only" button in order to view the presentation. Click here if you need to download a free PowerPoint Viewer.)

Lackluster Session Fails to Address Missouri's Shortfalls in Funding Basic Services