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To: HamiltonJay

Maine remains “Vacationland”....for the time being.


100 posted on 11/04/2009 8:37:09 AM PST by hoagy62 (Obama: slowly sucking the positive attitude out of the US since 11-4-08)
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To: hoagy62

Gay marriage loses by 5 points, that’s great.. but here’s what I don’t get about Maine..

They actually had a refferendum on whether voters must approve tax increases... and IT FAILED!!! And FAILED by 20 points!! WTH???

VOTER APPROVAL OF TAX INCREASES
No 332604 60.19%
Yes 219953 39.81%

With that sort of result to that question, its pretty obvious ME is not a conservative state.

I’m not huge on true democracy because it leads simply to mob rule and pandering, but for the limited question of tax increases? I think voter approval would be a damned good thing to keep government in check.


102 posted on 11/04/2009 8:41:34 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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