• Reports & Studies
    • CBPP TABOR A Formula for Decline
    • NCSL- CO digging itself out of mess
    • NCSL Fiscal Folly Article
    • NCSL- Nuts and Bolts of Tabor
    • NCSL- spending limits
    • NCSL- State tax and expenditure limits
    • NCSL- Tabor Talking Points
    • Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Tabor Report
    • Under theRadar Article
    • CBPP PA Cap Still Similar To Colorado Cap
    • State Legislature - Coloradans reached their limit with TABOR
    • CBPP - A Faulty Fix: Repairing the Ratchet will not repair TABOR
    • CBPP - Education and Investment: Not TABOR, fueled Colorado econimic growth in the 1990's
  • In the news
    • NATIONAL
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      • 9.14.07 - The Lesson Of The DMV
      • 10.18.06 - Anti-tax ballot box revolt stifled
      • 6.19.06 - PSN: Bill of Goods Roundup
      • Washington Post- 10.29 CO to vote on state spending ceiling
      • Washington Post- 11.21.04 Dems may use results in CO as Primer
      • Stateline - 11.3.05 Colorado vote may resonate nationwide
      • NY Times - 11.3.05 How Colorado got its government back
      • Defanging the TABOR toothed tiger
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      • NY Times - 11.15.05 Voters showed less appetite for tax cuts
      • Chronicle of Higher Education - 10.21.05 In Colorado, Colleges Fight Anti-Tax Lobby
      • LA Times - 10.23.05 Would State Budget Cap Pinch Like CO's
      • Washington Monthly - Is Grover Over?
      • 03.27 - Washington Post - GOP Governors Figst Tax Limits
    • COLORADO
      • The Tax Justice Digest- 4.25 Colorado Lawmakers Propose to Loosen the So-Called Taxpayer Bill of Rights
      • Aspen Daily News- 10.29 Last minute campaigns for TABOR vote
      • CO Daily- 10.27 The privatization of CU
      • Coloradoan Boulder- 10.28 Students crave info on CD
      • Daily Reporter- 10.28 CO Health Industry supports C,D
      • Daily Sentinel- 10.27 CO Gov, Penry spar over referendums
      • Denver Channel- Budget Fix Supporters Misleading Voters
      • Denver Post- 10.30 Split images of TABOR
      • Denver Post- 10.31 Tug of war for those on fence
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      • Denver Post - 9.15.05 State services feel measure's steady squeeze
      • TABOR Blamed for Death of Prison Guard
      • Denver Post - Democrats Brilliant Strategy Turns Tables
      • Evergreen Courier- 10.26 Straight talk on Referenda CD
      • Rocky Mt. News- 10.14 How to calculate TABOR refund
      • Rocky Mt. News- 10.22 Ref C & D budget breakdown struggling to succeed
      • Rocky Mt. News- 10.29 Yes on State Refs
      • Rocky Mt. News - Denying Flip Flop on Ref. C
      • Rocky Mt. News - Former Allies Against Each Other
      • Muscle puts C over top
      • Cuts will only get worse
      • Really hard
      • Rocky Mt. News - Restored Funding Begins To Flow
    • GEORGIA
      • Atlanta Journal-Constitution
        • 11.17 - Spending cap, sales tax off House GOP's radar
    • LOUISIANA
      • 12.14.06 - Louisiana crippled by TABOR spending rules
    • NEVADA
      • GOP Lieutenant Governor opposes cap
    • OHIO
      • Associated Press
        • 11.3 - House approves version of state spending limits
      • Other
        • 6.8.06 - Does Ohio Indicate Weakening of a Wedge
    • OREGON
      • 9.3.06 - Portland Oregonian: Another Law of Unintended Consequences
    • PENNSYLVANIA
      • WHP TV
        • 06.17.08 - WHP TV Report on Welfare Budget Battle
      • State House Republicans
        • 5.23.08 - Quigley Backs 270 Million Dollar Tax Break
        • 1.28.08 - Perry Introducing 350 Million Dollar Chesapeake Bay Legislation
        • 8.3.07 - Argall Proposes 50 Million Dollar Shift
        • 5.8.07 - Civera Seeks 53 Million Dollar Increase in EITC
      • York Dispatch
        • 9.18.07 - Those dueling energy plans
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      • Allentown Morning Call
        • 04.09.07 - Even if it's for polishing an image, state spending cap is a bad idea
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      • Associated Press
        • 11.3 - House approves version of state spending limits
      • Beaver County Times
        • 10.30 - Heart of stone
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        • 10.31 -Power Failure
        • 11.30 - Lawmakers don't need proposed state law to limit spending
      • Capitol Wire
        • 10.25 - House GOP- Ambitious Agenda, No Property Tax Cuts Til Dec
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        • 11.03 - Rendell talks tough
        • 12.19 - Various non-profit groups line up on both sides of the spending cap bill debate
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      • Carlisle Sentinel
        • 11.08 - Avoid Colorado mistake
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      • Centre Daily Times
        • 11.05 - Spending cap causes concerns
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        • 5.21.06 - Centre Daily Times: No easy fix to rising Penn State tuition
      • Penn State Daily Collegian
        • 11.08 - Cap may out PSU funding
        • 12.08 - PSU President Spanier warns on budget caps
      • Delaware County Daily Times
        • 10.31 - Mental HealthCuts
      • Lancaster Online
        • 10.27 - Spending Cap
      • Allentown Morning Call
        • 10.29 - Agenda to appease the right
        • 10.31 - Cap would cripple state gov
        • 11.4 - Legislators do exactly the wrong thing in adopting foolish spending caps
        • 12.21 - Spending hike below national norm
      • Harrisburg Patriot News
        • 10.27 - Senate approves spending caps
        • 11.13 - LAMP No to spending caps
        • 12.05 - Spending limits has drawbacks
        • 12.05 - Coalition hopes to stop cap on state spending
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        • 12.13 - Hoodwinking cap
      • Main Line Life
        • TABOR is not what taxpayers in Pennsylvania need or deserve
      • Norristown Times Herald
        • 12.05 - Socially conscious Grinch protests bill
      • Pennsylvania Public Radio
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        • 10.28 - Move to connect state budget growth to inflation rate receives criticism
      • Philadelphia Daily News
        • 10.25 - Nothing Right About This Bill
        • 11.14 - Veto that sucker
      • Philadelphia Inquirer
        • 4.11.07 - Perzel calls again for more police
        • 11.12 - PA Spending caps a fiscal straightjacket
        • 11.19 - PA Bills would cap budget increases
      • Philadelphia Weekly
        • 11.16 - Caps could devastate
      • Pittsburgh City Paper
        • 11.24 - Legislature up to its old tricks
      • Pittsburgh Post Gazette
        • 4.15.08 - Post-Gazette GOP wants to cut Pa income tax rate
        • 3.16.07 - Legislators' budget mantra: cut (everyone else's) spending
        • 10.31 - Need legislature w. backbone
        • 11.3 - Lawmakers already have tools to control spending
      • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
        • 12.05 - Spending cap bill's foes get signatures
      • Scranton Times-Tribune
        • 10.29 - Spending Caps Bill Farce
      • Greensburg Tribune-Review
        • 10.27 - Bill would put cap on state
      • Washington Observer-Reporter
        • 11.2 - Of spending caps and slots delay
      • Millersville University - The Snapper
        • 11.10 - PA House proposes spending cap bill
      • Kutztown University - The Keystone
        • 11.10 - Tuition fees to rise as aid falls
      • University of Pittsburgh - The Pitt News
        • 11.17 - State could cut funding
      • WITF-FM
        • 11.16 - Co Lawmakers discusses PA spending caps
      • The York Dispatch
        • 6.12.07 - Frustration legislation
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      • Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia
        • 11.17 - Possible budget cutselicit dire predictions
      • Other
        • 5.30 - PBPC: Poll Shows Little Support for Cap in PA
    • VIRGINIA
      • Washington Post
        • 6.15 - House Centrists Survive Anti-Tax Challenges
      • Richmond Times-Dispatch
        • 6.15 - Most moderate Rs survive VA primary
    • WISCONSIN
      • Wisconsin AFL-CIO Tabor Opposition
      • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 5.5 - GOP Wisc. Senate Rejects Budget Cap
  • What are people saying?
    • House Democrats

      • 11.2 - Stetler votes against Republicans’ TRAP for Pennsylvanians

      • 11.9 - Trap hurts transit

      • 11.14 - Policy Committee rejects arbitrary budget caps

    • Governor Rendell
      • 6.20.07 - PA Budget Secretary-Caps Would Harm Hundreds of Thousands of Vulnerable Pennsylvanians
      • Rendell's Spending Cap Q&A 10 28 05
      • 11.14 - Budget spending caps will harm Pennsylvanians
    • Coalition for Common Sense Priorities
             (click here for a list of organizations opposed to TRAP)
      • AARP urges legislature to use caution
      • CCJ urges PA legislature to hold hearings
      • PA AFL-CIO Working Families E-Activist Network
      • PA Association of Nonprofit Homes for the Aging
      • Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth Alert
      • Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth II
      • PSEA position on TABOR
      • PSU, Pitt and Temple
      • Statement by Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania
      • PCPA - update on spending caps and need for action
      • Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
      • Coalition for Common Sense Priorities says spending caps will tie legislatures' hands
      • SEIU urges legislature to oppose spending caps
      • Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
      • PBPC Impact on state spending caps in Pennsylvania
      • The Urban Health Care Coalition of Pennsylvania
      • Community College of Allegheny County
    • Other Organizations
      • 06.27.07 - Lutheran leader says TPA would hurt Pennsylvania
      • 6.10.07 - Spending caps will raise taxes
      • 4.17.07 - PBPC Urges Caution on Cap Legislation
      • 3.14.07 - PBPC Director Testimony to Senate Appropriations Committee
      • 6.29.06 - PBPC: Cap Would Have Cut 2005 PA Spending
      • 5.2 - Why County Commissioners of PA Oppose Cap - Higher Local Property Taxes
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      • 11.17 - County Commissioners Assn Anti-Cap Editorial
      • 11.30 - Cap is a new form of tax and spend
      • 5.30.06 - PBPC: Poll shows little support for Cap in PA