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Article: Nuts & bolts of TABOR: Colorado voters approved a constitutional amendment that limits the growth of government like nowhere else.
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- State Legislatures
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- January 1, 2005
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Colorado's TABOR Amendment is the most stringent tax and expenditure limitation that American voters have ever imposed on their state and local governments. It was submitted to Colorado voters by popular initiative in 1992 as a constitutional amendment to restrict the growth of government. Opponents and proponents alike agree that it has done exactly that, just as promised.
And there disagreement begins.
Opponents of "TABOR fear that it is leading to an ineffective, inefficient and ultimately irrelevant government. Proponents laud it as a model for the federal government and other states, and praise its contribution to Colorado's prosperity in the 1990s. ...