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7/22/2002

Henry's Weakness
TaxFreeTennessee.com artfully dissects Jim Henry's political weakness in pushing for a Colorado-style tax-and-spending limitation amendment for the Tennessee constitution in an essay, Busting the Cap II: Jim Henry, Lamar Alexander's Water Carrier published on their site today. (Click here.)

Their essay relies solely on public records and shows that then-Rep. Jim Henry repeatedly voted to exceed the spending allowed by the state's current (but weak) cap on the growth of spending. In fact, Henry sponsored the bill the first time the spending cap was ever exceeded.

Excellent work, guys.

For more on the TABOR amendment, scroll down or use the archives and start with my July 4 essay, We Won. Now What? and also read several more recent entries having to do with the Colorado plan and Tennessee's ineffective current spending cap. The essay Busted Cap outlines just how ineffective our current spending cap is.