What’s at stake?
We don’t have to speculate as to how
CI-97 (SOS) would affect Montana's people and public services.
We can look to our neighbors in Colorado and learn from their
experience.
CI-97 is modeled after Colorado’s "TABOR"
measure. Colorado is the only state that has such a measure.
Because CI-97 has all the same key
elements as Colorado’s TABOR, we can expect it would
have the same results for Montana’s:
Senior citizens
Public
health and safety
Local
communities
Jobs and economic
development
K-12 schools
Higher
education
Montana's
most vulnerable citizens
Agriculture
Please click on any of the above items to view
more information.
A study by the Sierra Institute on Applied
Economics found that if CI-97 had been enacted in Montana
15 years ago, Montana state government spending would have
been reduced by 27.3%.
In other words, the Montana legislature would
have been forced to cut that amount from the state budget
that pays for education, public safety, health care, etc.
("What If TABOR Had Been Enacted in Montana
15 Years Ago?" Richard G. Sims, CEO, Sierra Institute
for Applied Economics, Carson City Nevada, 775.783.0515, September
2006)
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