Taxpayers Bill of Rights:
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It Can't Happen in Nashville, June 17, 2008
A few years ago, the city council in Spring Hill, Tennessee, a fast-growing suburb of Nashville, voted to enact a local "Taxpayers Bill of Rights," which prevented property tax increases without a referendum. Last night, wanting to raise property taxes...
Tax Cuts Cause Unemployment, Liberals Say, August 24, 2006
Among the items I picked up in the exhibit area of the National Convention of State Legislatures' annual meeting, at Nashville's Opryland Hotel last week, was an inch-thick "candidate briefing book" from the liberal Center for Policy Alternatives, titled Progressive...
Major Tennessee Business Group Backs TABOR, December 31, 2005
Ben Cunningham sent along a link to the PDF of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry's legislative agenda for 2005, which includes (on page 7-8) an endorsement of the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights concept. Specifically, the organization, which represents...
The Fix is In, December 30, 2005
State Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, has a must-read blog post sounding the alert on the latest push by some in the state legislature to make your income subject to taxation - by letting cities and counties levy "payroll" taxes. He...
Enlightening Mount Juliet, December 10, 2005
Interesting story in The Tennessean today about a push in the Nashville suburb of Mount Juliet to adopt a new "home rule" city charter. A big subtext of the story is that converting to "home rule" could also involve giving...
A Letter to Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, October 31, 2005
Drew Johnson, president of the non-partisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research emails:You may have heard that Gov. Owens from Colorado recently sent a six page letter to me and the leaders of almost every other free market think tank in...
Helping Phil Keep His Word, October 1, 2005
Troy Senik, a research fellow at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research, analyzes Gov. Bredesen's latest less-than-ironclad statements opposing the creation of a new state income tax, and gives the governor advice on how to ensure Tennessee has...
My Op-Ed is in the Commercial Appeal Today, December 22, 2002
Here is the text of an op-ed I wrote as published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal today (Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002):TABOR plan would let taxpayers call shots By Bill Hobbs The arrival in Nashville next month of a new governor...
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