The gang that can't shoot straight

Rep. Frank Lasee, one of the Republican schemers of TABOR and all it's evil spawn is now saying we need to fix the latest version introduced by the Republicans. Lasee has a blog devoted to TABOR and is pretty much a one issue candidate with this and yet after years of work, the bill is not what they want?

How much time do they need to get this thing 'right'? I guess it's hard to write constitutional amendments seek to eliminate state legislative blame for budget problems without running into state legislative blame for budget problems.

Lasee tries to say that problems came up with this because as with any first try, there are mistakes. First try? I suppose it is the first try with this name, but they have been kicking this stinker of an amendment around for years and changing the name every time folks get to know it well enough to realize just how bad of an idea this thing is. His own blog has links to articles he wrote about TABOR years ago so who is he kidding?

Lasee seems shocked to realize that:

As it's currently written, the TPA lets the state rob local government revenue streams to spend on other state priorities. It then leaves local governments to backfill with property tax increases...

Um yeah, that's what every version of this thing has done. And since it's the basis for the whole idea, every version will include it won't it?

Of course his real beef is that the local governments will actually do property tax increases to make sure they can do all the services that state legislators like Lasee force them to do.

Lasee also warns that there are more problems so stay tuned...