TABOR in the press - 4/19/05

[sybylla]

Editorial: Problems with TABOR
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/apr05/319392.asp
From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: April 18, 2005

It's an obvious exaggeration, but the point is still valid. There now are, by Gov. Jim Doyle's tongue-in-cheek reckoning, more versions of the so-called taxpayer bill of rights in the Capitol than there are Republican legislators.
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Editorial: Muskego hands TABOR camp exactly what it needs
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/opinion/stories/opinion_20670827.shtml

Anyone opposed to a state-imposed spending cap a la the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights can have the Muskego-Norway schools to thank if the bill becomes law.

The Muskego school district held a referendum a few years ago to spend $36 million on its high school. The project finished about $430,000 under budget. The district spent it. But the whopper was that last month the principal, using his own judgment, spent $57,000 to buy and install eight plasma screen televisions for the cafeteria.

Meanwhile, state Rep. Frank Lasee announced last week he would re-introduce TABOR. Muskego handed him a perfect example of the cause he wants to curb.

There is a state crisis in spending for education that apparently is little known in Muskego. That district’s extravagant spending is so ostentatious and visible it beckons criticism.
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[ewagner]

1. Locals should

be taking care of that Superintendent....not Big Brother in Madison!

:grr: :grr: :grr: