From year to year, the increases cannot be greater than inflation plus population growth.

Damn, if that's not a great conservative idea, someone smart's going to have to explain to me why not.

Like to see more Gov's get on board with that.

If I'm not mistaken, the state of Colorado had an identical law in place. It is going to be suspended in light of some urgent need or other.

I view these kind of laws dimly, not for their intent at restraining growth, but that we feel the need to resort to these measures in a government out of control. Further, as in the case of Colorado, they can side-step it whenever they feel they have to by voting it down.

The damned republicans don't offer a counter to the damnocrats, at all. The two positions are almost the same. The dems want to grow the already massive federal government even more while the republicans want to grow it just a little less.

PATHETIC.

Here in CO. they voted to suspend the TABOR amendment for 5 years, freeing up some 5 billion or so dollars. They did it by threatening schools, medicare, and roads. They could have saved the same amount if they had just cracked down on illegal immigration. My state is becoming more and more blue every year. California has become such a joke that even the moderate lefts are leaving and coming here to ruin for the rest of us.

It bears repeating: Nazis are socialists. Lefties are socialists. Unions are socialist to the core. Unions are so much closer to Nazis than the most radical fringe of the right, they look like social siamese twins, especially when it comes to repressing ideas anathema to their own.

Want to help destroy America? Join a union. The members are generally just Joe America-types. They pay for the loony leaders, and the loony leaders would like nothing more than to see our system of representative government and economic system of playtime capitalism destroyed.

Any state wise enough to pass a TABOR law, then lets it get gutted by the politicians deserves what it gets. I already live in a solid blue state, and the political hacks here will never figure out why our unemployment rate is near the highest in the nation, why companies are leaving the state in droves, and why 3/4 of the state hates the State of Portland (Oregon), where the whores of Hawthorne play fast and loose with any laws they don't like.

I agree with the idea of SOS, but wonder how well known it is. I've never heard of it and I probably pay more attention to state politics than my average fellow Oklahoman. Hopefully it's not something that's only getting covered on talk radio and union websites. If I run into a petitioner I'll give them a signature.

Kind of on topic: Oklahoma collected too much income tax last year. Everybody that paid last year is getting a $45 check this month as a rebate.

dbs, no way!!!!! i lived there for years and usually complained about the income tax system. we ALWAYS had to pay come filing time (could usually use the fed refund to cover it). one time it was only a dollar, but still. most interesting.

DBS,
I just got my 90 dollar check in the mail (i'm HoH) I remember the debate to identify what we would spend the money on, and can recall the teacher's union begging for that money as well.