Will wonders never cease?

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My goodness. No less a source than our own Seattle Times has admitted that Colorado passed a taxpayer's rights initiative in 1992 that, despite the caterwauling of Romer and the state Democratic establishment, has worked pretty well. Central was a provision that taxpayers vote on every tax increase. The result, nowhere near as bad as the opponents feared. A reasonable number of elections requesting tax increases, with those well justified, about three-quarters, passing. If you haven't read it, do so. It is almost even

-- Gary Henriksen (henrik@harbornet.com), August 17, 1999

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