TABOR: Taking Away Benefits, Opportunities and Rights.

[sybylla]

A great FightingBob.com article on framing the TABOR debate

Good Acronym
by Glenn Stoddard

.....By strictly limiting local taxing and spending authority TABOR will take away the kinds of public benefits that often result from efforts by citizens to improve their own local communities. Such benefits include the development of local parks, recreational facilities like swimming pools and hockey rinks, and local libraries.

Services we have come to take for granted, like well-maintained public sewers and municipal water systems, municipal trash collection services, local recycling programs, and street maintenance programs would all be cut back or taken away by this short-sighted legislation.

By tying the hands of local government officials and local school boards, TABOR would ensure that the inequities that currently exist in local public services and in public schools around Wisconsin will become even more pronounced over time and would rob communities of the opportunity to build a better future....

....TABOR really means “Taking Away Benefits, Opportunities and Rights”; nothing more and nothing less. People who really understand the meaning of "TABOR" should spread the word about this fraudulent legislation and make certain that all legislators who support it are held accountable by the voters in the next election.

I like this. I think it is an excellent way to frame this debate and kick the pukes in the patootie at the same time. If you have time, check out the entire article. Stoddard makes excellent points throughout.

[ewagner]

1. Thanks....

adding the link to my TABOR file.....

need all the ammunition I can get...... :hi:

[gizmo1979]

2. I thought Tabor was a dead issue?

What happened.

[sybylla]

3. In the final throes, perhaps

but I want to see it rotting away. I doubt TABOR will ever die as long as the pukes have control of our state legislature. If Doyle loses in 2006, you can bet it will be back with a vengeance.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. These things never go away

at least for another generation. Groups like these (including MN's "Taxpayer's League") are state level groups from the national Grover Norquist "Club of Growth" group.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. I think I'm going to

a Municipal Treasurer's Seminar in June (though I'm not a Treasurer, I just play one on tv), and one of the sessions is on TABOR. I'll be very interested to see what they say and I'll report back!

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. I need information on TABOR!

including whatever collection you have, ewag, so I can study up on TABOR before my conference on Friday.

Then the following week is the Clerk's conference on SVRS, and then in July, I'm attending a week-long Clerk's training institute... that's a little scary, because I'm sure I'll be the only one there with so little experience in the job. I'm forty-seven years old - this just might break my brain! :scared:

[ewagner]

7. this may take a couple of edits

but here's some of the information on Tabor

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=186&topic_id=4933

and another:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=186&topic_id=4933

and here...note: you'll have to go to "Taxes" and look for the article "Exposing the Hoax of Taxhell". but here's the link:

http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org/

hope these help :hi:

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. Oh Wow,

thanks, ewag! I'm printing up tons of stuff as we speak (well, type). Bedtime reading! :7