A study by Suffolk University says Nevada’s budget exceeds the TASC limit by $268-million. That means that even after the adjustment in revenues expected next month, Nevada’s budget will still exceed the TASC limit.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2007/feb/21/566673923.html

I introduced TASC - the Tax And Spend Control amendment - to slow and control the growth rate of Nevada’s state and local governments. It’s proven one of the differences between candidates: Gibbons and Hunt oppose, while I am unabashedly in favor.
Now, the Nevada Policy Research Institute - NPRI - has published a couple of […]

Jon Ralston sure had me going this morning. He wrote in his “Flashpoint” that that TASC is over in Ohio. He says the fellow bringing it in Ohio, Ken Blackwell (who came from behind to win the Republican nomination for Governor), is withdrawing the amendment initiative because he is afraid it will lead to […]

The battle over the future of Nevada’s state and local government took on new dimensions today. For the first time in the history of our state, government employee unions have hired people to interfere with the people’s First Amendment right to petition government.
Here’s Molly Ball’s story in the Review Journal. And here’s a PDF file […]

They’ve been saying “TABOR was such a disaster that even Colorado’s Republican Governor wants to repeal it.”
They’re wrong.
Here’s Colorado’s Governor in the Arizona Republic proclaiming TABOR as “one of the primary reasons Colorado weathered the recession better than many other states.“

The circulating petition is now online…
Meanwhile, Tennessee voters love the idea…
In Maine, it qualifies for the ballot…
In Arizona, Colorado Governor Bill Owens tells residents that what happened in Colorado last year proves it is the best thing to happen to government since sliced bread…