WMC helping pukes find a new name for TABOR

[sybylla]

From Alliance of Cities Website several articles down
http://www.wiscities.org/

Imagine our surprise to discover lobbyists for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce hard at work with a state legislator to find a new name for TABOR.

The next version of TABOR — whatever it's called by then — seems to walk like TABOR and it seems to quack like TABOR. It is being drafted by Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) and Rep. Jeff Wood (D-Chippewa Falls).

Like the TABOR we know and hate, their proposal is expected to be a constitutional amendment that would contain a limit based on the Consumer Price Index plus growth, probably net new construction, which isn't at all a good measure of growth through redevelopment. It is expected to address revenue only, not spending. Other provisions:

* Communities could not raise fees to pay for things now paid for by the levy.
* Economic development debt service will not be under the limit.
* Municipal electric, phone, water and sewer utility revenue would be exempt from limits, but stormwater utility revenue would not.
* Legal judgments may be outside the amendment
* Limits in some fashion would take into account transfers of services from one unit of government to another.
* No local tax refunds would be required.
* State aid for municipal services provided to state properties might be considered as part of the levy.

I'm shocked. Are you shocked? I'm totally shocked.

Get ready for this duck.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. What is up with Rep Wood?

Why does he want to be associated with TABOR?

[sybylla]

2. I think they have him labeled wrong - Wood is a puke

Just noticed the problem in the article when you asked the question. I know the Dem who ran against him last election season and have sat with the woman who's running against him this year at several meetings. He's definitely not a Dem.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Yup. Jeff Monette ran against Wood last time, and his ex-campaign mgr,

Roberta Rasmus, is running this time. She's off to a helluva nice start, really working at it.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Wood is definitely a Puggie, and around here we're having trouble

figuring out if he was born that stupid or if he had to study on it.

[Broca]

3. They always like to name things for the opposite

of what they really are or at least criminally distracting. Like the so-called "Jobs Creation Act" that is essentially a gross weakening of environmental protections (and that Doyle fell victim to by signing it.)

[Viking12]

4. Yep, some puke Rep was on WPR doing her best to decouple fromTABOR

After the TABOR disaster in Clorado, the pukes need to find a new name for this failed policy.