18 October 2006

Analysis

Thanks to Visco et al for getting me to actually pay attention to voting issues before day-of cramming.

First thoughts on the Tax Payer Bill of Rights. (Having applied my Law of BS.)

TABOR is neither a Bill, nor does it include any Rights.

1. A Bill is either a piece of legislation passed by congress and not yet singed by the governor or a piece of paper that described in detail how someone bent you over and screwed you for money. TABOR is neither of these, and is certainly not modeled after the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, that from which it borrows its name.

2. TABOR doesn't deal with Rights at all, unless you consider a town's inability to create and fund a budget that it sees fit as a Right.

More to come.

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