Nathan Newman points out that the GOP's fetish for Grover-Norquist-style "starve the beast" (and keep rich people from paying taxes) referenda ran into a big fat brick wall last week: All their "TABOR" bills fell flat.
Colorado is very unhappy with their TABOR bill and Claifornia lost its position as a leader in research and education due to its anti-tax law. Unfortunately, once you pass these kinds of things, you have to have a crisis of major magnitude before you can repeal them. A certain number of people don't care if they drive the rest of the world into the ground just so they can go on paying taxes at Third World rates.
Colorado is very unhappy with their TABOR bill and Claifornia lost its position as a leader in research and education due to its anti-tax law. Unfortunately, once you pass these kinds of things, you have to have a crisis of major magnitude before you can repeal them. A certain number of people don't care if they drive the rest of the world into the ground just so they can go on paying taxes at Third World rates.
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