Thanks Again, Tim
For the second time in two weeks, columnist Tim Chavez has mentioned this site in his Sunday "Equal Time" column. Chavez in his column today noted this column's role in pushing the top two Republican gubernatorial candidates into endorsing a "Taxpayers Bill of Rights" amendment for the Tennessee constitution similar to the one in place in Colorado. For more on the Colorado plan, which caps both taxes and spending and gives voters a stronger voice in fiscal decisions, scroll down or use the archives links to the right to find my July 4 essay We Won. Now What? and also more recent essays and information about the Colorado plan. You may also want to read "Busted Cap," an essay reporting how Tennessee's current constitutional cap on the growth of government spending has been ineffective, and how legislators this year exceeded the spending cap by a record $771 million.