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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 07:10 AM
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GOP pair back limit on Ohio's spending:2 to push bills based on Blackwell'
Article published Friday, January 14, 2005

GOP pair back limit on Ohio's spending
2 to push bills based on Blackwell's plan

By JAMES DREW
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF


COLUMBUS - Backing a proposal from Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, two Republican lawmakers said yesterday they plan to introduce measures to limit government spending and make it tougher to raise taxes.

If voters approve, the constitutional amendment would require at least a three-fifths majority of the House and Senate, and then a majority vote of Ohioans to increase state spending - if the increase is higher than the inflation rate plus the rate of population increase.

Mr. Blackwell, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2006, said: "We fundamentally believe what Patrick Henry believed; that constitutions are not vehicles for the government to restrain the people. To the contrary, constitutions are vehicles for the people to restrain government."
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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050114/NEWS24/501140415/-1/NEWS

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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 07:59 AM
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1. Good God
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 10:58 AM
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2. Sounds like the crap they passed in Colorado as TABOR
the Taxpayer Bill Of Rights. Interestingly, Colorado has just bounced all the puke idiots that thought it was a good idea out of the state legislature and now they're trying to get TABOR repealed.

For some reason that hasn't stopped pukes from thinking they ought to try to pass it or something like it in other states like Wisconsin and now Ohio.

Apparently the pukes can't read the writing on the wall.
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