Colorado TABOR vote hurts Kansas campaign

It’s true that the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights proposed for Kansas differs from Colorado’s constitutional amendment. Nonetheless, the vote Tuesday in Colorado to rescind its TABOR law undermines arguments for the Kansas proposal. Even Colorado’s Republican Gov. Bill Owens, who earlier this year was in Wichita championing the virtues of TABOR, switched sides and led the anti-TABOR campaign (and is shown celebrating in the photo). So why would Kansas want to approve an amendment that Colorado now says was a mistake?
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

8 Comments

  1. TRACY
    Posted November 2, 2005 at 3:52 pm | Permalink

    No comments here because the facts section of your post answers the question at the end.Nice toss.

  2. ProudMan
    Posted November 2, 2005 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    The vote in Colorado means that just over 50% of the voters want more government, nothing more. No arguements have been undermined.

    Old Phil only had one ‘fact’ in his post. Can anyone find it?

  3. JUSTA GUY
    Posted November 2, 2005 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

    I think maybe TABOR showed Colorado’s politicos who is supposed to run the state by putting the brakes on for awhile. This state needs to put some brakes on deficit spending and maybe 2 or 5 years of TABOR might do that.

  4. mrcontroversy
    Posted November 2, 2005 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

    Before Colorado had TABOR, they had initiative and referendum. To do otherwise in Kansas is putting the cart before the horse.Why is it that Ms. Landwehr and her ilk only let us vote on the things THEY want, and don’t trust us to vote on what WE want?

  5. Joe Blow
    Posted November 3, 2005 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    Ask the question this way: How can the Eagle support a casino vote when our “elected representatives” don’t want us to have one. So we’re smart enough to vote on a casino. But when it comes to taxes, we have to let our “elected representatives” vote, not the people. Geez.

  6. TRACY
    Posted November 3, 2005 at 8:15 am | Permalink

    Gosh JB, I agree.Do we have to talk to the Pope to get to heaven also?

  7. Joe Blow
    Posted November 3, 2005 at 10:03 am | Permalink

    No, the Pope just gives you a little extra boost!

  8. mrcontroversy
    Posted November 3, 2005 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    Joe, you miss the point.TABOR–and last Tuesday’s vote in Colorado–were the product of the people, not politicians.Initiative and referendum give the people the chance to bypass the politicians and the special interest groups and bring about change…even if the system doesn’t want it.The people of Colorado had the sense to pass TABOR…and the sense to know when it had gone too far.Having run for statewide office and lobbied in Topeka, I have much more faith in the people than I do the politicians.