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Article: Coloradans reach their limit with TABOR: in one of the fiercest issue campaigns watched nationwide, Colorado voters chose to give money back to the financially strapped state.(Taxpayer's Bill of Rights)
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- State Legislatures
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- January 1, 2006
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It is the national anti-tax movement's Foundation Stone--the Colorado constitution's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR). This fall, big-government spenders sweet-talked voters into taking sledgehammers to The Rock. And by doing so, taxpayers chained themselves to more government spending and higher taxes.
Or so the faithful would say.
Their opponents would tell you that assessment is, to put it politely, bunk.
Supporters of November's ballot measures to let the state keep more money and authorize bonding said the measures were necessary to keep the state budget off life support.
The fight united Democrats and Republicans and put ...