A Legislature unable to raise and appropriate funds cannot meet its primary constitutional obligations… Since the passage of ‘TABOR’ in 1992, the State of Colorado has experienced a slow, inexorable slide into fiscal dysfunction.
— Excerpt from a legal challenge filed against a two-decade old Colorado ballot measure explicitly designed to choke the state’s common wealth. Tim Eyman sponsored a copycat measure in 2009 in Washington State, which voters resoundingly rejected.
