Is Maine ready for TABOR?
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Bangor Daily News: This coming Election Day, Maine voters will have an opportunity to influence two of the most contentious issues in politics: taxes and government spending. Perennial voters should be familiar with the topic, which failed at the ballot box in November 2006. But while the wording of the ballot question has changed somewhat, the debate over whether a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, will lead Maine to a more prosperous future or a world of financial hurt is pretty much the same. TABOR II, which will appear as Question 4 on the Nov. 3 ballot, proposes to restrict the growth of government spending to the rate of inflation plus population changes. It would supersede existing restrictions, in place since 2006, that links General Fund spending rates to personal income growth.
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