Statehouse insider Martin Hawver raised a statistical concern about the Taxpayer Bill of Rights proposal that failed in the Legislature this session. He noted in a commentary in Wednesday’s Eagle that “TABOR lite” would have required two-thirds majority votes in both chambers in order to raise taxes. That would mean, Hawver calculated, that as few as 14 state senators (just more than a third of the 40-member Senate) could determine the state’s tax policy. “That’s a lot of power to hand over to less than 9 percent of the 165-member Legislature,” he wrote. Of course, even with the current simple majority requirement, it only takes 20 senators — or just 12 percent of all lawmakers — to block a tax increase.
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I don’t think the 12% figure was in the talking points memo from the Teacher’s Union that Hawver was reading from when he wrote his commentary.
Does it take the 2/3 for a tax decrease?
What the TABORites in Kansas fail to mention–and for reasons that escape me–is that before Colorado had TABOR, it had initiative and referendum.Why don’t Landwehr, Watkins, et al, support giving us the right to vote on everything?Things that make you go hmm….
I think many TABOR supporters would be happy to have I & R too. No “hmmmm” there.
Kansas doesn’t have tax cutting problem we have a tax increasing problem.