TABOR Pains
I've recently joined the group of contributing writers over at BlueOregon. My first post, "TABOR Pains", looks at the impact of state taxes on economic performance in the context of Oregon's coming debate over a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR).
If you're interested to what Grover Norquist and his "starve the beast", anti-government crowd are doing at the state level, check it out:
Benjamin Disraeli famously commented that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.” As Don McIntire and the team at the Taxpayer Association of Oregon prepare to bring a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) capping state spending to Oregon, Disraeli’s warning has rarely been more fitting...
For the whole piece, visit BlueOregon.
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