August 13, 2002

Links to More Info on Colorado Plan

I've put together a list of links to assorted other information and commentary about Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights, including media commentary, academic research, and my own commentary...

Media Commentary - Click here for media praise for Colorado plan. Also, here is a link to a very recent Wall Street Journal commentary on the Colorado plan. If you don't have a paid subscription to WSJ's web site, I've put the text of the editorial online here.

Also see:
Triggering tax rebates
By Michael New, research assistant and data analyst with the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute. Source: Washington Times, April 2, 2002.

Academic research into TABOR:
The TABOR Amendment: Learning To Live Within Colorado's Tax & Spending Limits
By Dr. Barry Poulson, professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Senior Fellow with the Independence Institute, and a member of the Colorado Commission on Taxation. Also available as a PDF file. Nov. 2001.

Limiting Government through Direct Democracy: The Case of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations
By Michael New, research assistant and data analyst with the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute. The full Cato study on the effectiveness of tax and expenditure limitations on state spending growth. Source: Cato Institute, December 2001. Click for the Executive Summary.

We still need fiscal discipline
By Dr. Barry Poulson, professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Senior Fellow with the Independence Institute, and a member of the Colorado Commission on Taxation. Source: June 23, 2002, Denver Post.

This poll by a Colorado political polling firm last summer found strong support among Coloradoans for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Source: Ciruli Associates

My other commentary on the Colorado plan:
Busting the Cap
My recent commentary showing how Tennessee's current cap on the growth of government spending has utterly failed to restrain spending, and why Tennessee needs a Taxpayers Bill of Rights.

For more on the Colorado Taxpayers' Bill of Rights please read two columns of mine published last year and one published last March in the Nashville City Paper.

Finding Common Ground on Taxes - August 23, 2001
Tennessee Should Consider Taxpayers' Bill of Rights - August 30, 2001
Spending Cuts Now May Lessen Future Deficits - March 21, 2002