Taxpayer Bill of Rights/TABOR Fight In Maine

The coalition that has crafted an alternative to the proposed TABOR spending cap says the group's diversity will translate into enough political power to win the plan's passage in the Legislature. The coalition includes the state's municipalities, hospitals, teachers union and big businesses..."This is astonishing," said Sen. Peter Mills, R-Cornville, who helped draft the plan. "I have never seen anything like it, in terms of people coming together around a common core of principles."....TABOR Foes: Group has clout to get plan passed, Tom Bell, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, 10/20/2006

A coalition against a taxpayer bill of rights that would limit spending includes municipalities, hospitals, teachers union, and big business. Gee, there's a surprise. One gathers (and hopes) than Senator Mills has a sense of irony when discussing their "common core of principles".

Luther