Colorado’s Tabor comes under fire

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February 1, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Colorado’s Tabor seems headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Tabor came about 20 years ago through a popular vote. It regulates how the state raises money and taxes its people. It requires a popular vote to raise taxes. As a consequence, Colorado has been required to use all manner of political shell games and subterfuges to fund education and the rest of state government.

A few years ago the voters lifted Tabor’s stranglehold over Colorado’s treasury temporarily to keep the schools open. Now the whole philosophy of direct government by the people is being challenged.

A group of former legislators and others with extensive experience in government have banded together and filed a lawsuit challenging the law. Its goal is to restore representative democracy in Colorado; to give the power back to elected legislators and an elected governor. In short, Colorado would be governed as Kansas, and most of the other states, are.

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