The analysis certainly dispels the fears of those who said that TABOR would starve the state government and hurt the local business climate. [...] A Decade of Tabor Ten Years After: Analysis of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights By Fred Holden, Public Policy Specialist and Author, TOTAL Power of ONE in America The TABOR Amendment: What is It? [...] Colorado Springs property owner Douglas Bruce and supporters successfully organized a In a 1987 meeting following the defeat of the 1988 campaign for the first of three TABOR, 1986 tax limitation amendment, George or Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights petition drives that Dibble, the then-president of Colorado captured enough signatures to appear on the Association of Commerce and Industry ballot. [...] What they chose in TABOR was to unfettered tax increases, and passed the Bird- use the authority and power of the Arveschoug 6% spending limit (sometimes Constitution to do the important work of lim- later called “the Swiss cheese” limit because it iting government growth. [...] The logic is, if inflation grows one per- Report (CAFR) from the State Controller’s cent, then one percent more purchasing power office (303-866-3281), and “Colorado is needed to buy the same goods and services Economic Perspective” from the Office of for the same population served.