Taxpayer Bill Of Rights (TABOR) Returns To Wisconsin Legislature Again

Below is a good overview story about the TABOR amendment being pushed for by Wisconsin legislators in Madison.
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That ‘evil’ word TABOR crops up in Siren

SIREN—It’s the evil word they’ve heard before, said Siren School Administrator Scott Johnson, but with a different spin.

The Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR), is now being pushed in the Wisconsin State Assembly as the Taxpayer’s Protection Act, a constitutional amendment that Johnson says will ultimately take away control from local government and ruin public education in Wisconsin.

“This is a train wreck in the making for education,” Johnson said.

The constitutional amendment would limit the revenue from taxes and fees that the state or a special purpose district, school district, technical college district, county, city, village or town may receive in any year to the amount it received in the previous year, according to a short analysis on the 2005 assembly joint resolution 77.

Read more: Burnett County Sentinal