January 06, 2009 11:44 PM UTC

El Paso County Drowning Update #734

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• by: Colorado Pols

Continuing our, uh, continuing coverage of the debacle that has become of the great El Paso County/Colorado Springs “drown government in a bathtub” experiment.

As The Denver Post reports, El Paso County is considering – GASP! – repealing TABOR. Seems ideology isn’t as cool when it turns out to be terribly damaging to your own people:

A battle is brewing over a possible ballot measure that would repeal the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in Colorado Springs, home of the author of the law that limits government taxing and spending.

The City Council is expected to meet Tuesday with a volunteer group that’s been studying how the city raises and spends money.

The council likely will decide whether to put a plan repealing TABOR to a vote in the April election.

Yes, TABOR is so awesome that the land where it was invented wants to get rid of it. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again; TABOR wasn’t a bad idea in theory, but it has been a miserable failure in practice. Those who continue to defend it to the death will see exactly that: the death of their communities.