The trouble with TABOR

The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families is hosting community forums around the state to help people learn more about TABOR and what it could do to Wisconsin. You can catch one in the Milwaukee area, the Manitowoc and Sheboygan area, Eau Claire, and Green Bay. Go here to find out the details.

Colorado's experiment with TABOR proved to be a dangerous gamble and the voters recently decided to end it. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted some of TABOR's results:

By 2003, Colorado reported the nation’s second-largest budget shortfall relative to its budget. The fiscal problems have cost some 15,000 children their state-financed health care coverage and some 100,000 senior citizens their property tax exemptions, and led to reductions in expenditures on everything from health to higher education to highways, among other areas.

Now the Wisconsin State Legislature is gearing up to try to pass TABOR here. Why would Wisconsin want to take this gamble?