March 29, 2004

Three is Not One - Neither is 27

State Sen. Jim Bryson and his push for a Tennessee Taxpayers Bill of Rights gets a good mention in this AP story about how efforts are underway in several states to enact similar legislation. There's also a sidebar that further makes clear just how many "facts" were, uh, non-factual in the anti-Taxpayers Bill of Rights editorial in the Saturday Tennessean that I commented on yesterday. The Tennessean said Colorado is the only state with such a law now on the books. That's false due to oversimplification. While Colorado's law is considered the toughest cap pn spending, revenue and tax increases in the nation, both Oregon and Oklahoma also have limits on all three, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. And...

Over the last 30 years, 27 states have adopted some kind of tax and spending limit, most of them in West and South. Limits on spending are the most popular with 19 states having adopted such restraints. Some limits are statutory, which gives lawmakers the power to change it, and others are constitutional, leaving the final word on changing them to voters.

You want accurate coverage and fact-based commentary on the proposed Tennessee Taxpayers Bill of Rights? Stick with HobbsOnline...