February 27, 2004

Don't Forget!

Whatever you do, don't forget to come to the March 2 Taxpayer Bill of Rights Town Hall Meeting , if you live anywhere close to Nashville and can get away from work for a couple of hours.

The event - with keynote speakers Steve Moore, president of the Club for Growth, and John Andrews, president of the Colorado State Senate - will introduce the Taxpayers Bill of Rights concept to the general public and (hopefully) provide some momentum to legislation pending in the Tennessee legislature to put a TABOR amendment on the ballot in 2006.

As proposed, the Tennessee Taxpayer Bill of Rights constitutional amendment will:

1. Cap the rate of growth of state government spending,
2. Require tax increases to be voted on by the people, and
3. Require that excess collections be returned to the
taxpayers.

Read on for the line-up for the March 2 Town Hall meeting...

Keynote addresses by Steve Moore, president of the Club for Growth, and John Andrews, president of the Colorado State Senate, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience and Moore, Sen. Andrews, and Tennessee TABOR sponsors Sen. Jim Bryson and Rep. Glenn Casada; plus Matt Kibbe, executive vice president of Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Drew Johnson, policy analyst with the National Taxpayer's Union

Time and location:
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
10:00 - Noon
Sheraton Hotel, Downtown Nashville

The Tennessee TABOR Town Hall meeting is sponsored by the Government Accountability Project and the National Federation of Independent Business.

For more information on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, go to www.SenatorBryson.org and click on TABOR. Also, see the Taxpayers Bill of Rights category here at HobbsOnline.

From an email promoting the Town Hall meeting:

Mark your calendars!!! Make your plans! The Tennessee Taxpayer Bill of Rights Town Hall Meeting will be on Tuesday, March 2 at the Nashville Sheraton downtown. The purpose of this meeting is to show the legislature that people from throughout the state and nation support the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in Tennessee. We need you to be there! A good crowd will show the legislature and the media that we are serious about passing a Taxpayer Bill of Rights this year. We need YOU!