- Change how the amendment is marketed.
Its new name - the Taxpayer Protection Amendment - was too close to its old name, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR. Referring to the latest version as TABOR let opponents warn that Wisconsin was in store for the painful funding cuts to universities and highways that happened in Colorado, under that state's now-lifted Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
How the Wisconsin amendment was pushed by WMC and Assembly Republican leaders was "atrocious," said Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Bellevue), who has long worked
for constitutional limits on government spending. Lasee vows to never use the term "TABOR" again.
Notice that 'Come up with better policy' was not a proposed solution?
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Frank Lassee needs to understand that it no longer matters what he calls his abomination. Anything that looks or smells like an artificial restriction on government will be flagged as a TABOR clone as soon as it hits Wheeler.
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